Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes

Bulgarian MEP Peter Kouroumbashev and French Ambassador Eric Lebédel traded remarks on Twitter on Wednesday evening after the latter referred to an interview of the MEP as an "illustration of the "whining periphery syndrome"."

Rumyana Chenalova, a dismissed judge who has been at the center of several high-profile scandals in Bulgaria and faces several charges, has been indicted again, private bTV station reports, citing prosecutors.

Her new indictment contains charges of issuing a false judicial protocol and abuse of office.

Outgoing French Ambassador Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes has called on Bulgarians not to emigrate, arguing those who did were leaving the country into the heads of controversial lawmaker Delyan Peevski.

Planning "would probably have disappeared completely" from Bulgarian policy-making "were it not for the EU pressure", a report on Bulgaria by the Bertelsmann Stiftung reads.

The Chief Prosecutor's Office of Bulgaria is "very centralized and hierarchic", French Ambassador to Bulgaria Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes argued on Saturday.

In an interview with private bTV station's mornign program he said that everyone working for the institution depended "on a single person": "there is no Chief Prosecutor's Office in Bulgaria, there is a Chief Prosecutor".

The Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) of Bulgaria has decided to dismiss Rumyana Chenalova, a Bulgarian judge with three counts of disciplinary action and charges of malfeasance and document abuse.

Rumyana Chenalova, a controversial judge charged with malfeasance and document fraud, is to be handed a second indictment on Wednesday, Bulgarian media outlets report.

Chenalova has been summoned to the Bulgarian security agency DANS, according to the Bulgarian National Radio which cites its own sources.

Bulgarian citizens and officials commemorated the victims of Friday's attacks in Paris by laying flowers and expressing their condolences in front of the French embassy in Sofia on Saturday.

Bulgaria's capital Sofia is celebrating Days of France from Friday through Sunday (October 16-18).

With support from Institut Français, which is co-organizing the event with the French-Bulgarian Trade and Industrial Chamber this year, the Days of France are going beyond exclusively gastronomic nature they had in 2014.

The condition of the Bulgarian judiciary is not a strictly domestic affair and it of interest for France too, according to French Ambassador to Bulgaria Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes.

Speaking Thursday at a conference on the rule of law, he said that France was interested in judicial reform in Bulgaria because both countries were EU Member States.