Liviu Nogoita is Romania’s Prime Minister-designate but chances of actually getting the job appear slim. He is hoping for a government with broad political support. But the opposition-dominated parliament looks set to reject him, intensifying the country’s political deadlock.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, admitted Saturday he had reprimanded his Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, over a recent remark. Naydenov recently said he expected the state to win the suits against former Tsar and former PM Simeon Saxe-Coburg for the annulling the restitution of 16 000 decares of forests (plots …

Bulgaria’s President, Georgi Parvanov, said Saturday he was not going to approve the recall of the country’s Ambassadors to the USA and Turkey. “I am not convinced that these two diplomats are guilty,” Parvanov said. Earlier this week the Bulgarian government approved the recall of the Ambassadors to Turkey and …