The governments of Bulgaria and Macedonia will hold a joint meeting in early December. It will coincide with the inauguration of a section of the Strouma Motorway between Kresna and Sandanski, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told journalists in Sofia Thursday, emerging from a meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev.

A united and strong European Union is a far more appropriate and powerful partner of the Arab world. The Arab world can take the EU as a role model of the rule of law and women's and children's rights, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said, addressing the opening of the 3rd EU-Arab World Summit: Shared Horizons, on 29 October in Athens, Greece, quoted by the government information service.

The bill intended to bring transparency to media ownership was supported unanimously by the lawmakers in the parliamentary Committee for Culture and Media. The considering of the new legislative texts introduced by Movement for Rights and Freedoms MPs Delyan Peevski, Hamid Hamid, Yordan Tsonev and Velislava Krasteva went without actual deliberations.

Bulgaria may become a gate between Asia and the European Union for the development of technologies. This possibility emerged following Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's meeting with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Borissov was on an official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 20 and 21 October.

Speaking to Bulgarian reporters at the sidelines of the European Council meeting underway in Brussels, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that so far his country has returned by airplane nearly 3,000 Afghan nationals who entered Bulgaria illegally.

Historical and cultural heritage is high on the agenda of the 7th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, underway in Sofia on Thursday and Friday, and was the main highlight of an informal tourism ministers' meeting of the Danubian countries, held in the Bulgarian capital earlier on Thursday, European Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu told a news conference in Sofia.

For more than five months, the Commission for Protection of Competition has not addressed the request for approval of a deal for the sale of Telegraph Media to New Image Media, which is inadmissible and does not comply with the terms that the Commission set for such procedures.

In March of this year the Bulgarian parliament approved amendments to the Bank Insolvency Act proposed by Movement for Rights and Freedoms lawmakers Delyan Peevski, Yordan Tsonev and Hamid Hamid. They were intended to stave off the plundering of the assets pledged as collateral for the loans extended by CorpBank.

There is nothing unlawful in the activities of Delyan Peevski, said the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission for Illegal Assets Forfeiture (ACCIAF), Plamen Georgiev, for bTV channel.

The move that the fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev is using to fake out the Bulgarian justice system could block other cases in Europe too. This opinion was expressed by Plamen Georgiev, head of the Anti-Corruption Commission for Illegal Assets Forfeiture (ACCIAF), in an interview with Nova Television.