15 August 2013 | 14:02
The number of asylum seekers in Bulgaria has considerably increased compared to 2012, Vice-president Margarita Popova, who visited Strazhitsa to commemorate the day of the municipality, said. Margarita Popova told journalists that only in the first six months of the current year the refugee flow to Bulgaria outnumbers the asylum seekers throughout the entire 2012. The asylum seekers were 1380 in 2012, while in the first half of the current year they have reached 1880 people.
14 August 2013 | 15:03
President Rosen Pleveneliev expressed his firm support for the cause of wrestling as an Olympic sport. At a meeting held with Nenad Lalovich, president of the International Wrestling Federation, the Head of State emphasized that wrestling is a sport with an ancient history and traditions in many countries throughout the world and must definitely remain to figure in the program of the sports included in the summer Olympic games.
7 August 2013 | 15:03
The President returned for further debate in the National Assembly the provisions of the Law amending the State Budget Act of the Republic of Bulgaria for 2013.
6 August 2013 | 14:02
The President expresses his conviction that the principles of division of powers and the independence of the judiciary lie at the heart of the rule-of-law state and cannot be put under condition, no matter what the aim of the amendments of an individual law is. Therefore the Head of State will use the powers that the Constitution provides him with and will refer the case to the Constitutional Court.
31 July 2013 | 14:02
Bulgaria is going through a long-lasting crisis: at the beginning of the year the government tendered its resignation because of protests, currently there is opposition against corruption in politics. Only one person seems not to be suffering damage from that: Rosen Plevneliev. The President is popular and he has won recognition as a good manager in times of crisis. This is what a portrait of the Bulgarian Head of State broadcast by the German public radio Deutschlandfunk says.
