Protests in Bulgaria asking for the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev have entered their third month. Against this background the Bulgarian parliament has become a fortress in which journalists are treated as the enemy. EURACTIV Bulgaria reports.

On 2 September the Bulgarian parliament moved into a bigger building: the former Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party HQ was revamped to host the 240 MPs. On the same night the protests took a violent turn, which attracted international attention.

But what went unnoticed is that the “new” building was used as an alibi to introduce new restrictive rules of access for journalists, citizens, NGOs and small political forces that are not represented in the parliament.

In the old building, journalists could mingle with MPs in all the common spaces except the hemicycle. This tradition of 30 years was one of the tangible achievements for press freedom after the fall of communism.

But it seems that this advance is now becoming ancient history.

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