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Bulgaria is holding its fourth parliamentary elections in less than two years. The country's political instability is not helped by a rash of small parties that are nationalist, anti-liberal, and firmly pro-Russian.
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Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party leads its rivals ahead of the country's third parliamentary election this year, although anger against corruption put an end to its almost decade in power in April, a new opinion poll showed on Tuesday.
Polish media have angered critics who say they target the US company Discovery Inc., owner of the TVN broadcaster that’s openly critical of the right-wing government. The changes were published on Poland’s parliament website late Wednesday and were proposed by lawmakers from the governing Law and Justice party that has been taking steps to control the media ever since winning power in 2015. Critics say the party has turned state TVP broadcaster into its mouthpiece and wants to limit media ownership by foreign investors. The TVN broadcaster’s all-news TVN24 channel that exposes alleged i...
Phantom Pollster Has A Way Of Popping Up, Propping Up Bulgaria's Ruling Coalition December 15, 2020 17:07 GMT Share share Maybe not, if that forest lies on the Bulgarian political landscape. It's a conundrum that might be on the minds of millions of Bulgarians ahead of a key electoral test in March for Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's governing bipartite coalition, which has been in power since 2017. Bulgarian National Television (BNT), the public broadcaster, touted some questionable figures in a November 30 broadcast of its main news after asking the question: "If parliamentary elections were...