LAST UPDATE: 15:25 Outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov rejected a Russian ultimatum to reverse a decision to expel 70 Russian diplomats by noon today and named the country’s finance minister as his potential successor. The Balkan country, a member of the EU and Nato and once a close ally of Russia, has been in […]
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Bulgaria: Survival of reformist, pro-European Petkov government’s in play today in parliament
Just six months in power but under threat: Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov is facing a motion of censure in parliament today over significant disagreements over the war in Ukraine within his government. The election spectrum hovers over the Balkan country of 6.5 million, the European Union’s poorest. Bulgarians have already won three elections in […]
Bulgaria: Parliament Speaker fired
The Bulgarian Parliament today ousted the speaker of parliament, dealing a new blow to Prime Minister Kirill Petkov’s coalition government, which faces a motion of censure next week. Opposition parties and the populist ITN party, which broke away from the four-party coalition last week, voted in favor of ousting Nikola Minchev, a member of the […]
Agreement between Ukraine and Bulgaria on grain exports through the port of Varna
Ukraine has reached an agreement with Bulgaria to export its grain through the Bulgarian port of Varna, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov on Thursday. Zelenki did not mention the timing of the agreement, nor did he provide details on the volume of grain that Ukraine will export […]
Bulgarian PM: Europe must be stronger and find alternatives to Russian gas
Europe must be “stronger” and find “alternatives” to no longer use Russian gas, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov said today from Ukraine. Moscow cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland yesterday. “For a few months now, we would never have thought we would be without Russian gas, but now we have alternatives,” said Kirill […]
Petkov: By June this year, there must be a shift in Europe’s energy dependence on Russia
With the effects of the war in Ukraine, the way of Europe’s independence from Russian gas but also the course of the accession of the countries of the Western Balkans to the EU. The Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Northern Macedonia and Montenegro, as well as the President of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and […]
K. Skrekas: IGB is a very important project – A new era begins in the Greek-Bulgarian cooperation
LAST UPDATE: 16.58 The Minister of Environment and Energy, Costas Skrekas, described the Greece-Bulgaria IGB interconnected gas pipeline under construction as a “very important project”, visiting the metering station of the project in Komotini this afternoon, together with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Kirillos Petro of Alexander Nikolov. “This is a very important project at […]
Bulgaria: PM Petkov Talks With European Leaders At Munich Security Conference
On the second day of the Munich Security Conference, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov held a series of bilateral meetings with European leaders, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. . Petkov and Johnson discussed bilateral relations and the importance of creating opportunities for good education and for young people to […]
Bulgaria: Prime Minister Petkov goes for questioning to the Office of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Cassation
Prime Minister Kirill Petkov went to the Office of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCPO) today to be asked about the names he had mentioned during his meeting with Attorney General Ivan Geshev on February 4. Petkov and the head of the prime minister’s office, Lena Borislavova, had been summoned to the […]
Northern Macedonia: Dimitar Kovacevski’s government receives vote of confidence
Shortly before midnight, the government of Dimitar Kovachevsky received a vote of confidence from Parliament. In particular, 62 deputies voted in favor of the government, 46 voted against it, while 12 abstained from voting. The Parliament of Northern Macedonia has a total of 120 seats. The new cabinet has 21 members. Twelve come from the […]