Dr. Albena Tapova was the elected Chair of PROUD (People for Real, Open and United Democracy) in Gabrovo. She was presented at a press conference by the leader of the organization - MEP Slavi Binev and Juliana Dontcheva.

During the Spring Conference of the UK Independence Party, the Bulgarian MEP made a joke to Nigel Farage who became popular with his campaign against Bulgarian emigrants. He told him that he had arrived with a return ticket in his pocket. "Invest in our country, so that there would be work places for Bulgarians and they will remain in their homeland", he called.

GERB are supposedly no longer in the government, but the persecution of inconvenient journalists still continues.
These days the MEP Slavi Binev alarmed that he had received information on the development with a codenamed "Budali" in which journalists were wire tapped.