That awkward moment when there is an article about your country in The New York Times - to tell the world that the Prime Minister and his party decided to stop trying to get the so-called Istanbul Convention ratified by our Parliament under pressure from his coalition partners.Bulgaria Rejects Treaty to Combat Violence Against Women

SOFIA - Bulgaria ( Read more... )

This one is not about the European Commission convention on violence against women, for a change:

Bulgarian Vice Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov and his right-wing National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria, NFSB, have called for the deportation of the German co-chair of the European Parliament's Green Party, Ska Keller.

She is currently in Bansko, ( Read more... )

That interesting moment when the adherents of The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (popularly known as the Istanbul Convention) get compared to witches - complete with quotes from Shakespeare's Macbeth. With references to the biblical Tower of Babylon and the Brave New World for ( Read more... )

Let me now try to inform you what’s been going on here in Bulgaria (among other crazy things). The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, popularly known as the Istanbul Convention, suddenly became an occasion for cultural wars.

The full text of the convention in English can be found ( Read more... )