Prime Ministers of Bulgaria

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.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Friday made clear he would not be a presidential candidate in the forthcoming election this autumn.

He told the Bulgarian National Television's Friday night talkshown Panorama he was determined to avoid a scenario where he would run for President and trigger early parliamentary elections.

Delyan Peevski, a controversial Bulgarian lawmaker and businessman, said on Friday he was selling his stake in Bulgartabac, a Bulgarian tobacco joint-stock holding company.

Peevski, whose name came to the spotlight after he was appointed to head the national domestic and counter-intelligence agency DANS in 2013, triggering nationwide protests, had a majority stake in Bulgartabac.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will participate in the meeting of the leaders of the Visegrad Group countries in Prague on Monday.

The meeting will mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Visegrad Group, which brings together the countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is the most beloved politician by the Bulgarian media, enjoying far more publicity than any other public figures, a study by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung's Media Program for South East Europe and Foundation Media Democracy, FMD, shows.

During a meeting in Sofia on Friday, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the leader of the Party of European Socialists (PES) Sergei Stanishev discussed the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe and the accession of Bulgaria to the Schengen Area.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has asked the European Commission to help normalize traffic through Greece's border with Bulgaria.

Bulgaria has nominated Irina Bokova, director of UNESCO, for the post of UN Secretary-General, the Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.

"With her biography and experience, Ms Bokova can be one of the important candidates in the upcoming campaign for a Secretary-General of the UN," the ministry said.

Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov said on Tuesday his institution would put forth all its effort into the campaign of Irina Bokova, the UNESCO Director General, to become the next UN Secretary General.

"We will do everything to contribute to the success of [her] candidacy," he told public broadcaster BNT in an interview.

UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova is now officially Bulgaria's nominee for the office of UN Secretary General, a statement by the Foreign Ministry in Sofia shows.