Sergei Stanishev

A second indictment will be filed on Monday against former Bulgarian intelligence head Kircho Kirov, the prosecution says.

Kirov, found guilty of large scale-embezzlement last year (becoming the first high-profile Bulgarian official sentenced to jail time), had his sentence overturned by a last-instance court.

Europe cannot solve Bulgaria's domestic problems, former Prime Minister and current Party of European Socialists (PES) head Sergey Stanishev has said.

In an interview with daily 24 Chasa on the occasion of Bulgaria's membership anniversary, he has warned against using the mantra of "instructions from Brussels" for political ends.

Bulgaria's Military Prosecutor's Office said on Tuesday that it has charged an unnamed number of defence ministry employees with deliberate dereliction of duty which cost the state over two million leva (around a million euros).

Petar Kurumbashev is to enter the European Parliament after Iliana Iotova assumes the Bulgarian Vice President's office, daily 24 Chasa reports.

Kurumbashev's name was the fourth on the Bulgarian Socialist Part (BSP) ticket for the EP elections in May 2014, when the BSP mustered enough support to send four lawmakers.

The Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS) on Tuesday overturned a 10-year imprisonment sentence ruled for former intelligence head Kircho Kirov, BGNES wire service reports.

The head of Bulgaria's biggest opposition party has distanced itself from the decision of its MEPs who voted in favour of a resolution on human rights and and state expenditure on migrants from third countries.

A debt settlement deal was signed by Bulgaria's state-owned National Electric Company, or NEC, and the Russian nuclear producer Atomstroyexport on Wednesday, the Bulgarian Energy Ministry announced.

An arbitration court in Geneva ordered the NEC to pay the Russian firm 601,617,133 euros for the production of two nuclear reactors for the cancelled Belene power plant.

Sofia City Prosecutors have charged former minister Petar Dimitrov with deliberately failing to apply the necessary controls over the work of two former CEOs of the state-owned National Electric Company, or NEC.

BSP leader Korneliya Ninova has accused GERB of putting pre-election pressure on the opposition.

Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has decided to replace the ministers from the Stanishev Cabinet who are now members of the management boards of state energy enterprises.