Boyko Borisov

After inspecting twenty contracts on EU-funded projects in 2014, the Public Financial Inspection Agency has established violations in nineteen of them, BGNES reported.

The information became evident through a letter addressed from Director of the agency, Ventsislav Georgiev to the Bulgarian Parliament, sent on April 20.

The Energy Committee with the National Assembly has approved legislative amendments under which members of the state energy watchdog will be elected by Parliament.

Russia's Ambassador to Bulgaria Yuriy Isakov has said the construction of South Stream was "a happy development" Bulgaria should have fought for.

"No-one offers gifts like that... [gifts] like South Stream," the website Dnevnik.bg quotes him as answering to a question during an official reception on Thursday evening.

Bulgaria's Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov became father of a boy on Saturday.

The news first appeared on PM Boyko Borisov's official Facebook page.

"We have the first baby in the government," Borisov wrote. "The Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov today became father of a boy and treated us on the happy occasion. May the entire family be healthy!"

Boyko Borisov's GERB party is struggling to assemble a working majority in parliament after winning most votes in Bulgaria's general elections on October 5.

Rumen Yonchev, from Bulgaria without Censorship, said his centrist coalition will offer "preliminary support" to the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB.

The Sofia City Court has stopped a trial against former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov in on the grounds of the immunity from prosecution acquired as newly elected MP from center-right party GERB.

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After more than six hours of consultations, the centre-right GERB and the coalition Reformist Bloc (RB) failed to agree on forming a government.

Bulgaria should have either a center-right alliance or a grand coalition, interim Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki believes.

Bulgaria's ABV party led by former President Georgi Parvanov has said it won't take part in a government coalition with centre-right GERB party.

The differences between ABV and GERB are so big that the answer is negative, Parvanov told BNR radio broadcaster on Friday.

There is no other alternative if GERB points out Boyko Borisov as Prime Minister during the forthcoming government talks, a Reformist Bloc leader has reiterated.