12 March 2013 | 17:05
On 13 March by virtue of a decree President Rosen Plevneliev will appoint a caretaker cabinet with Prime Minister Marin Raykov. By virtue of another decree the head of state will adjourn the National Assembly on 15 March and will schedule early general election for 12 May. In the Coat of Arms hall at 2 Dondukov boulevard the head of state announced the prime minister and the members of the caretaker government. “I have not allowed anyone to pressure me and I have disregarded the party affiliations,” the President said in a joint statement with Marin Raykov.
12 March 2013 | 17:05
From tomorrow onwards Bulgaria will be governed by a caretaker government for the third time in its democratic history. It is precisely at difficult times that caretaker governments have brought peace to the nation and set the right direction for recovering from the crisis. I do believe that now the situation will be the same.
10 March 2013 | 15:03
Europe’s strength lies in the fact that we can solve the problems together and create a common market with common rules for a democratic and prospering community. This is what Rosen Plevneliev said at the debate titled “What keeps Europe together?” which was held today in Vienna. The European Union is not an “accounting union for the EU funds” and is not simply a common market. “It is a union of values and democratic states which build their future together,” the head of state emphasized at the forum held in Vienna’s Burgtheater.
6 March 2013 | 23:11
The difficulties that Bulgaria is currently facing can be overcome by taking measures to secure economic growth and curb unemployment, President Rosen Plevneliev and European Parliament President Martin Shultz emphasized during their meeting in Brussels. The two debated the situation in our country ahead of the forthcoming early general election.
6 March 2013 | 18:06
During their meeting in Brussels President Rosen Plevneliev and European Commission President Jose Barroso debated the agenda of the next European Council meeting related to stimulating growth and increasing the employment rate and particularly the measures for fighting youth unemployment.
