Stanishev Government

''We have to leave a mark after so many years of isolation'', Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha said in an EURACTIV interview on the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, quoted by BGNES. 

If Parliamentary elections were held today in Bulgaria GERB, The Bulgarian Socialist Party, the Unite Patriots and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms would enter the National Assembly, the results of the national survey of Barometer Bulgaria Agency show, quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov signed orders for the appointment of three deputy ministers which are going to fill the staff in the Ministries of Health, Regional Development, and Energy, reported BGNES.

Today is to be held the first parliamentary monitoring for the ministers in the "Borisov 3" cabinet. Only one Minister is going to participate - Valentin Radev, reported bTV.

The Minister of Internal Affairs is going to answer on the deputy question about the condition of the facilities along the Bulgarian borders and the readiness against the illegal migration.

''The fact that one of the Deputy Premiers will be in charge of the judicial reform proves that this reform is one of the biggest priorities of the current Bulgarian cabinet'', Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva told the Bulgarian Radio on Sunday.

''The salaries of the Bulgarian Teachers will increase with 15% on September 1'', Bulgaria's Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev announced on Sunday, according to BNR.

''There is no pressure from Brussels for a coalition between the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and GERB'', President of the Party of the European Socialists (PES) and former BSP leader and prime minister Sergei Stanishev said Friday, talking to reporters before the meeting of BSP's National Council which analyses the results of the March 26 early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria.

The Party of European Socialists (PES) congratulates its Bulgarian member party, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), for the strong result they achieved during the snap general elections in Bulgaria last Sunday, according to BTA.

Five parties would make it to Parliament in the early election this spring, a poll based on attitudes in mid-January shows.

The parties jumping above the 4% threshold include conservative GERB, socialist BSP, liberal, ethnic Turk-dominated DPS, the recently forged nationalist alliance United Patriots, and Volya, the new party of Varna-based businessman Veselin Mareshki.

"The Bulgarian EU presidency is a way to attract attention to the [Balkan] region," Meglena Kuneva, Bulgaria's deputy prime minister in charge of European policies said on Tuesday as she presented the logo for the country's six-month presidency of the European Council, which will start on January 1, 2018.