
Bulgaria Taps Off-Ballot Candidate for Prime Minister
Boïko Borissov, the winner of the fifth Bulgarian election in two years, turned to an unusual candidate for prime minister in an attempt to finally form a functioning government.

Boïko Borissov, the winner of the fifth Bulgarian election in two years, turned to an unusual candidate for prime minister in an attempt to finally form a functioning government.

All leftist parliamentary groups joined the effort to keep Hungary grounded, signed just a day before Budapest announced a major breakthrough in the negotiations with Brussels on the release of the frozen funds.

Not getting the answers it needed in Brussels, the Budgetary Control Committee went to Spain to dig up the data on the Next Generation funds.

The measure may reveal some uncomfortable truths, MEP Eva-Maria Poptcheva hinted after the European Parliament passed the amendment.

This marks the second year in a row that the socialist-communist coalition government of Pedro Sanchez has failed to adequately use the generous subsidies from the European Union.