Prime Ministers of Bulgaria

Public Tender for Reconstruction of Sofia Winter Palace Cancelled Again

The public procurement procedure for the reconstruction of the Winter Sports Palace in the Bulgarian capital was cancelled again.

The renovation of the sports hall in Sofia was among one of the tenders ordered for cancellation by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov last week.

Bulgaria Govt, Shell to Sign Gas Exploration Agreement

Bulgaria and Shell are set to sign an agreement for offshore gas exploration on Tuesday, the government has announced.

Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova and Shell Exploration&Production BV Eileen Wilkinson with take part in the ceremony that is due on Tuesday morning at the Council of Ministers.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has also been invited to attend.

Bulgarian PM Borisov Receives Death Threat

An anonymous letter with unspecified death threats against Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has been received at the government headquarters in Sofia, public radio broadcaster BNR reported on Monday.

The unsigned enveleope contained a photograph of Borisov with a bullet attached to it, BNR said. The death threats were written in letters cut from a newspaper.

Bulgarian Govt Fires Head of Refugee Agency Nikola Kazakov 

Nikola Kazakov, Chairman of the State Agency for Refugees, has been dismissed, the Bulgarian government announced on Monday.

Kircho Kirov, one of Kazakov's deputies, will serve as interim chairman until the government appoints a new incumbent, the government press office said in a statement.

Bulgaria PM Dismisses Deputy Justice Minister Andrey Yankulov

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has dismissed Deputy Justice Minister Andrey Yankulov, the government press office said in a statement on Monday.

The statement cited no reasons for the dismissal, only saying that Yankulov had asked to leave the position, according to the statement.

Bulgaria PM Reshuffles Deputies' Portfolios

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has decided to redistribute the specific porfolios assigned to the four Deputy Prime Ministers, the government's press office has said.

The move is related to the recent appointment of Meglena Kuneva, until then Deputy PM for institutional affairs without a ministerial portfolio, as Education Minister.

Serbia's Parliament Speaker Visiting Sofia

Maja Gojkovic, the Speaker of Serbia's Skupstina (Parliament) is in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Monday and Tuesday.

Gojkovic is coming at the invitation of her Bulgarian counterpart Tsetska Tsacheva.

Meetings have been also scheduled with President Rosen Plevneliev, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, and Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov.

Report on Bulgaria's Collapsed CorpBank to Be Unveiled Next Week

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has asserted that the report prepared by an international consultancy that is tracing unlawfully used assets of Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank or KTB) will be made public on Monday.

Borisov has told the Bulgarian National Television that the global consulting firm AlixPartners granted its consent in a telephone conversation.

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