Bulgarian mafia and oligarchy structures are sabotaging attempts to form a caretaker cabinet, according to political analyst Ognyan Minchev. “The brutality with which those shady structures obstructing cabinet formation are an indicator of their great interests to prolong and manipulate instability,” said Minchev in an interview for the Trud daily …

The Bulgaria for Citizens party led by former EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva has unveiled its pre-election plan to reform the political system and boost the struggling economy.Kuneva’s party on Sunday unveiled its 31-point programme aimed at tackling the roots of the discontent which has resulted in mass protests and the …

Parents are passing on unresolved traumas from the 1990s conflict to their children, with destructive consequences for society, Bosnian mental health experts have warned.Parents who have been traumatised by witnessing ethnic cleansing, the killings of friends and relatives or brutalisation in detention camps during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina …