Law

A new development around the concession of Sofia Airport. Once the obstacle with the amendments to the Concessions Act has been dropped and they have been approved by the Parliament, it now turns out that the President is delaying the decree on the promulgation of the corrected texts in the State Gazette.

Climate change and its impact from a security perspective was the topic tackled on Wednesday by Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu at the works of the 37th session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly - Africa, Caribbean, Pacific - European Union (ACP-EU), which took place in Bucharest.

An expert has spotted that some 32 guns out of a total 250 guns at a weapons museum belonging to the police headquarters in the western province of İzmir had been replaced with their imitations in a fraud scheme.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is set to hear Turkey's appeal on the detention of an opposition leader accused of terrorist links, according to Turkish Justice Ministry on March 19.

The Union of Greek Prosecutors on Tuesday hailed government plans to overhaul the country's dated penal code, but expressed serious objections to a number of specific measures outlined in the draft bill that has been put up for public consultation.

In his speech on Wednesday to SYRIZA lawmakers, party leader and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras described with clarity the tactics he intends to pursue during this year's pre-election period which we have now essentially entered.

A 42-year-old man is arrested for murdering his mother. This was announced by Sofia City Prosecutor Emilia Rusinova during a briefing, Darik reported.
 
The crime was committed on March 10th, most likely in the evening. But a signal was filed on March 12 by neighbors after colleagues of the deceased sought her because she did not appear for 2 days at work, the prosecution said.

The availability and capacity to actively contribute through parliamentary diplomacy to strengthening EU relations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states was central theme of talks held Thursday by Chairman of the Romanian Senate Calin Popescu-Tariceanu with a group of senior representatives of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (ACP-EU).

Prosecutors with the Judiciary Crime Investigation Section have ordered that the prosecution of the former Chief Prosecutor of the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), Laura Codruta Kovesi, be further carried out, for having committed offenses related to the establishment of an organised criminal group in its way of coordination (...) and complicity in the unfair repression in the form o

From 18 March 2019, small and medium-sized farmers can apply for state aid for the purchase or construction of raw milk processing facilities, the State Fund for Agriculture (SFA) announced.

The total budget of the aid, which will apply until December 31, 2020, is BGN 1.5 million.