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President Radev Participates in Presidential Panel of St. Petersburg Economic Forum
June 7 (BTA Special Correspondent Lora Metanova) - "A new, supranational approach of the people on the planet is called for, one that young people already have, but politicians still cannot afford," Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said here on Friday. Together with Russia's Presi...
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President Radev Meets UN Secretary General, Armenian PM, Bulgarian Community Members in Saint Petersburg
June 7 (BTA) - On the second day of his visit to Saint Petersburg, President Rumen Radev conferred with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pasinyan and members of the Bulgarian community there, Radev's Press Secretariat reported.
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Environment Minister Says EC Can Sanction Bulgaria Only if It Fails to Submit Natura 2000 National Reports
June 7 (BTA) - Bulgaria can be sanctioned by the European Commission only if it does not submit its national Natura 2000 reports under the Birds and Habitats Directives for 2013-2018, Environment and Water Minister Neno Dimov said at FridayТs Question Time in Parliament.
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Foreign Minister Zaharieva Confers with Slovak Counterpart Lajcak in Bratislava
June 7 (BTA) - Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva is paying a visit to Slovakia in June 6-7. On Friday Zaharieva conferred with her Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak, her Ministry said in a press release. The two ministers concurred that the...
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Transport Minister Calls for Revision of Overall Approach Underpinning Mobility Package 1
June 7 (BTA) - Bulgarian Transport Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov and his counterparts from Poland, Hungary, Lithuania and Latvia have discussed a joint strategy of like-minded EU member states concerning Mobility Package 1. The meeting took place in the framework of an EU Transport ...
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Employers Will Be Eligible to Receive Lv 10,000 for Customizing Work Place for Disabled
June 7 (BTA) - Employers will be eligible to receive 10,000 leva for customizing the work place for a permanently disabled person of working age. The same amount could be allocated for equipping each new work place according to the worker's disability. These stimuli are set in th...
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President Radev: Bulgaria's EU, NATO Membership Does Not Exclude Vigorous Relations with Russia
June 6 (BTA Special Correspondent Lora Metanova) - Bulgaria is a member of the EU and NATO but this does not exclude the development of vigorous relations with the Russian Federation, President Rumen Radev said here on Thursday at the start of his meeting with Russian counterpart...
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EU Report: Over 50% of Bathing Waters in Bulgaria Are of Excellent Quality
June 6 (BTA) - In 2018, 52.6 per cent of bathing waters in Bulgaria were of excellent quality, 37.9 per cent were of good quality, 7.4 per cent of satisfactory quality and 1.1 per cent of poor quality, according to a report by the European Enviroment Agency and the Europe...
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Q1 GDP Goes Up By 3.5% Y-Y
June 6 (BTA) - Between January and March, GDP at current prices amounted to 24,656 million leva, the National Statistical Institute said on Thursday. In euro, GDP totalled 12,606 million euro or 1,801 euro per person. According to seasonally adjusted data, GDP grew by 3.5 per cen...
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Prime Minister Borissov Suggests Reducing State Subsidy to Political Parties to One Lev
June 6 (BTA) - The Council of Ministers has submitted to Parliament on Wednesday evening a bill reducing the state subsidy paid to political parties which win more than one per cent at the last parliamentary elections, to one lev, from the current eleven leva, per every valid vot...
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"Nearly Excellent" Implementation of Regions in Growth Operational Programme
June 6 (BTA) - Deputy Regional Development and Public Works Minister and head of the Managing Authority of the Regions in Growth Operational Programme Denitsa Nikolova reported on the implementation of the Programme to the parliamentary Committee on European Affairs and EU Funds ...
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President Radev Calls for Three Seas Initiative to Leave Political Sphere, Head for Concrete Solutions
June 5 (BTA Special Correspondent Assen Boyadjiev) - The Three Seas Initiative has begun to leave the sphere of pure political talk and to acquire more concrete dimensions with the idea about the establishment of an investment fund, President Rumen Radev told journalists ...
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Netherlands Needs More Proof of Bulgaria's Fitness to Join Schengen
June 5 (BTA) - Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok, who is on an official visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, said to journalists in the Council of Ministers that in order to support Bulgaria to enter the S...
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Socialists, GERB Argue about Food, Medicine VAT Reduction
June 5 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is tabling bills for the reduction of VAT on milk, meat, flour and products made of flour to 5 per cent, outgoing BSP Chair Kornelia Ninova told a briefing on Wednesday.
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Economic Cooperation with Russia Should Be Developed Despite Sanctions, President Radev Tells TASS
June 5 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev told Russia's TASS News Agency that he is confident economic cooperation with Russia needs to be developed regardless of sanctions and counter-sanctions - the way Bulgaria's Western partners develop it, especially in the area of energy, given ...
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Temenujka Petkova: Arguments for an Electricity Price Increase Are Completely Justified
June 5 (BTA) - Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova said at the opening of the Bulatom Nuclear Forum in Varna on Wednesday that the State Agency of Energy Regulation's arguments for raising the price of electricity are fully justified and are not just related to the Bulgarian real...
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Valery Simeonov: So far there is No Indication that the United Patriots Will Dissolve
June 5 (BTA) - National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB) party leader Valeri Simeonov told journalists at the National Assembly Tuesday that he has no information that VMRO wants a revision of their coalition agreement. "I don't know what can even be reviewed in the coa...
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Prime Minister Borissov: Only Chance to Increase Incomes is to Maintain Current Economic Stability
June 4 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov attended the fifth anniversary ball of the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIB) on Tuesday, which has been under his auspices since it began, the press service of the Cabinet said on Wednesday. Borissov expr...
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President Radev Refers Controversial State Property Act Revisions to Constitutional Court
June 4 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev has referred to the Constitutional Court controversial revisions to the State Property Act, the presidential Press Secretariat said here on Tuesday. The President's move follows a vote in the legislature which overcame his veto of the revision...
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VMRO Slams Plans for Sofia Pride Parade on June 8
June 4 (BTA) - The nationalist party VMRO Tuesday slammed plans for a Pride Parade in Sofia on June 8 and said the Bulgarian capital "should not become an arena of gender propaganda". VMRO issued a press release on the matter. "Our nation was built on the values and principles of...