The parliamentary vote is set to coincide with elections for Bulgaria's members of the European Parliament, it said. "We must be a guarantor of stability, we cannot allow our country to be involved in a constitutional crisis, (and) . be hostage to party ambitions and desires," Glavchev said during the government handover ceremony. Bulgaria, the poorest member of the EU and one of its most corrupt states, has been rocked by political instability since anti-graft protests in 2020.
Portugal's caretaker government announced on Wednesday an emergency aid package worth 500 million euros ($543 million) for farmers as it tries to avoid the kind of mass protests causing disruption in France and elsewhere across Europe. As part of the package, Agriculture Minister Maria do Ceu Antunes announced a 55% reduction in the tax on agricultural diesel fuel and an extra 120 million euros to support organic agriculture and mixed farming. Some 200 million euros were to mitigate the impact of a long-running drought impact on farmers' income.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Ex-Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for leaking state secrets.