Legal Committee

Bulgarian MPs are set to hold a debate on the introduction of online voting after a referendum in October showed strong support for the step.

Bulgaria will have a record number of representatives in the committees of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

This became clear after the first meeting of the newly elected executive committee of UEFA in Prague, daily Dnevnik reports.

Any accusations against government officials on breaking the law must be thoroughly and without interferences investigated and the law must be equally enforced for everybody, the US Embassy in Bucharest pointed out in the context of the request for the approval to open a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

The Deputies' Chamber in a plenary session on Tuesday will debate and vote on the prosecutor general's demand regarding the draw-up of the request for opening a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

The Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies will recommend the plenum to reject the request of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) to open a criminal investigation on Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

In a 97-to-48 secret vote with 5 votes cancelled, the Senate plenum approved on Wednesday the taking into custody and placement under preventive detention of the former Finance Minister, Senator Darius Valcov in an influence peddling case.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sustains that if endorsing the individuals' insolvency law without an adequate impact study and without consulting the associations involved, could never attain its goals and could have a negative impact on the financial market.

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