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Employer Organizations Complain that Inefficient Management Has Pushed Electricity Prices Up
May 9 (BTA) - Bulgaria's four largest employer organizations on Thursday sent a letter to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, with copies to Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev and Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova, pointing to what they see as a total lack of efforts to cut the ...
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Trade Unions Want Minimum Monthly Wage of 450 Euro by End of 2022
May 9 (BTA) - The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) insists that by the end of 2022 the average monthly wage in Bulgaria should be 1,000 euro and the minimum wage, 450 euro, CITUB President Plamen Dimitrov said on Thursday. He was presenting the ma...
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Agriculture Minister Porozhanov Says He Is Ready to Resign
May 9 (BTA) - Speaking to journalists here on Thursday after being questioned by the Specialized Prosecution Office (SPO), Agriculture, Food and Forestry Minister Roumen Porozhanov said he is ready to tender his resignation. He said that he has discussed this move with Prime Mini...
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Five Bidders for Sofia Airport Concession
May 9 (BTA) - All five bidders for the concession of Sofia Airport have been allowed to participate in the public procedure on the opening of their offers, Deputy Minister of Transport and Information Technology Velik Zanchev announced on Thursday. Zanchev also chaired the conce...
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Ex-Mayor of Sofia Borough Placed under House Arrest as She Awaits Appeal of Her Prison Sentence for Asking a Bribe
May 8 (BTA) - The Appellate Specialized Criminal Court put the ex-mayor of Sofia's Mladost borough, Dessislava Ivancheva, and her former deputy, Bilyana Petrova, under house arrest awaiting an appeal of their prison sentence for asking a bribe. The first-instance court placed the...
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Deputy Minister Nankov: ECA's Audit of Bulgarian Roads Is Planned, Not Based on Alert
May 8 (BTA) - The European Court of Auditors audit of EU support for road construction in Bulgaria is a regular, planned audit, and not based on an alert, Deputy Regional Development and Public Works Minister Nikolay Nankov told reporters here Tuesday evening. The audit is being ...
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Parliament's Summer Session Opens
May 8 (BTA) - Bulgaria's 240-seat Parliament Wednesday opened its summer session after the Easter recess in the presence of 121 MPs. The BSP for Bulgaria continued its boycott of the sittings, which started in February over election rule revisions. The MPs of the Movement for Rig...
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EC's Spring Economic Forecast: Bulgaria's Economic Growth to Recover
May 7 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - Economic growth in Bulgaria is expected to recover, according to the European Economic Forecast Spring 2019 issued on Tuesday by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs.
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President Radev Congratulates North Macedonia's President-elect Pendarovski
May 7 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev has congratulated Stevo Pendarovski on his victory in North Macedonia's presidential elections, Radev's press secretariat said on Tuesday. He wished the President-elect of Bulgaria's southwestern neighbor success and courage at a time when Nort...
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Former Council President Rompuy: Europe's Not on the Brink of Collapse, This Isn't the Beginning of the Union's End
May 7 (BTA) - Former Belgian prime minister and former president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy spoke in a conference on "Bulgarian Politics in the Euro-Atlantic Reality" in Sofia on Tuesday. "Europe is not on the brink of collapse and we are not witnessing the...
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2018 GDP Growth at 3.1 Per Cent
May 7 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2018 was 3.1 per cent, Assoc. Prof. Victor Yotsov of the Institute for Economic Studies with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) said at a BTA-hosted briefing on Monday. Yotsov presented BAS' annual repor...
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PM Borissov: "In Pope Francis, Bulgaria Has a Great Friend"
May 7 (BTA) - "In the person of Pope Francis, we have a great friend of Bulgaria," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told the media at Sofia International Airport on Tuesday morning minutes after the pontiff boarded his flight that flew him to Skopje, North Macedonia fo...
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More than Half of Bulgarians Unwilling to Trade Damage to Protected Areas for Economic Development
May 6 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - More than half of Bulgarians believe that economic development should not damage wildlife in protected areas such as those in Natura 2000, according to a Eurobarometer survey carried out among 27,643 respondents in the 28 EU Member St...
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On Second Day of Apostolic Journey to Bulgaria, Pope Francis Pays Private Visit to Refugee Centre, Administers First Com...
May 6 (BTA) - In the early morning of Monday (the second day of his apostolic journey to Bulgaria, May 5-7), Pope Francis paid a private visit to the Vrazhdebna Refugee Centre in Sofia and blessed the residents. Later in the day, thousands welcomed the Pope in the south-central ...
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Bulgarian Leaders Condole with Russian Counterparts on May 5 Sheremetyevo Plane Crash
May 6 (BTA) - Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, National Assembly Chair Tsveta Karayancheva and Deputy Prime Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva have sent condolences to their Russian counterparts on the heavy loss of life in a fire on board a passenger pla...
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On St George's Day, Bulgarian Armed Forces Mark Day of Valour by Blessing of Colours, Military Parade in Sofia
May 6 (BTA) - May 6 was marked countrywide by various events as the Day of Valour and of the Bulgarian Armed Forces. In the morning, the military standards were blessed and sprinkled with holy water by Bishop Gerasim of Melnik in the prayerful presence of Bulgarian Patriarch N...
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Pope Francis Celebrates Holy Mass in Sofia
May 5 (BTA) - The last public event of the first day of Pope Francis in the Bulgarian capital was a Sunday evening Mass in the Prince Alexander I Square where thousands had gathered to see him and receive a blessing. Once in the central square, the Pontiff got off the popemobi...
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Pope Francis Recalls Example of Ss Cyril and Methodius, Pope John XXII as He Visits Holy Synod, Prays Regina Coeli
May 5 (BTA) - Pope Francis recalled the example of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and his predecessor Pope John XXII as he visited the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and met with Patriarch Neophyte, and then prayed Regina Coeli in the St. Alexander Nevsky Square. The...
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Pope Francis Arrives in Bulgaria
May 5 (BTA) - Pope Francis arrived Sunday on an apostolic journey to Bulgaria at the invitation of the Bulgarian authorities and the Interritual Bishops' Conference of Bulgaria. He came with a delegation of 35 of the highest representatives of the Holy See. He was met at the g...
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Bulgarians in Germany To Be Able to Vote in EU Parliament Elections in 21 German Cities
May 4 (BTA) - For the first time ever Bulgarian citizens in Germany will be able to vote in 13 additional polling stations during the elections for Bulgarian representatives in the European Parliament on May 26, said the Foreign Ministry's press center. The polling stations will ...
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