Rosen Plevneliev

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's largest party GERB declined on Thursday to try to form a new government, opening the way for the rival Socialists to put together a technocrat administration and end a political impasse. Seeking to break a deadlock that could...

* Centre-right GERB certain Socialists can form government * Bulgaria locked in a political stalemate * Unemployment close to eight-year high By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA, May 21 (Reuters) - The head of Bulgaria's largest party said on Tuesday he was...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will convene parliament on May 21, in an attempt to have a government formed quickly and end a political impasse in the European Union's poorest country. Under Bulgarian law, the president must...

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES ----------- BAGHDAD - At least 32 people were killed in two explosions outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad, after Friday prayers, police and medics said. - - - -...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's GERB party is demanding a rerun of Sunday's election, blaming illegal campaigning for its failure to win more support and prolonging a political vacuum that would further undermine the European Union's poorest economy....

SOFIA, May 15 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's president said on Wednesday there was no need for new elections, even though a parliamentary vote at the weekend failed to produce a clear winner. President Rosen Plevneliev said he would begin initial talks with...

Por Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFÍA (Reuters) - Los búlgaros están llamados a acudir a las urnas el domingo, en unas elecciones bajo sospecha de amaños y con las expectativas de que un resultado ajustado prolongue la incertidumbre del país más pobre de...

SOFIA, May 8 (Reuters) - Bulgarians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament, the European Union member state's eighth free general election since the fall of communism in 1989. The centre-right GERB party, which resigned from office in...

BURGAS, Bulgaria -- A bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists, the bus driver and the suspected bomber in Bulgaria was probably carried out by a male suicide attacker who had a fake Michigan driver's license, Bulgaria's interior minister said...

The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, had dinner at upscale Mexican restaurant Mercadito Monday while in Chicago for NATO. And as you would expect, he had plenty of company. Besides the Prince's table of seven, the large...