Vice-PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva has hosted Ambassador of Italy to Sofia Stefano Baldi on the occasion of him concluding his term in Bulgaria. The two senior officials discussed the excellent state of bilateral relations as well as challenges facing European countries in relation to the coronavirus pandemic.

The indicted oligarch Ivo Prokopiev has stretched his tentacles to yet another key European agency by attempting to secure a position in it for one of the pawns in his inner circle - the scandalous grants recipient Nadya Shabani. He is doing this with the help of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), which is pressuring the Ministry of Justice to approve the nomination by setting an absurdly short deadline of two days for a decision to be made.