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Transport Minister Urges Sofia Airport Concessionnaire to Step up Investment Plans
December 23 (BTA) - The Sofia Airport concessionnaire, SOF Connect, will step up its investment plans in 2022. That was agreed Thursday during a meeting between Transport Minister Niolay Sabev (second from right in photo) and SOF Connect CEO Jesus Caballero. The Minister urged th...
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New Ban Expected to Stop Telecom Operators from Increasing Prices on Existing Contracts with Users
December 23 (BTA) - A new order will prohibit the increase of prices on effective contracts for telecom services, Economy and Industry Minister Kornelia Ninova said here Thursday. She was speaking to reporters after meeting with representatives of consumer rights watchdogs, incl...
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BTA Becomes Partner of New European Bauhaus Initiative
December 23 (BTA) - The Bulgarian News Agency became a partner of the European initiative for creating more beautiful, sustainable and inclusive forms of living together, New European Bauhaus. This initiative is the link between the European Green Deal and our living spaces. It c...
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Parliament Votes to Spend Surplus Revenue for Additional Payments to Pensioners and Compensations for Electricity Price ...
December 23 (BTA) - Parliament voted Thursday to spend the surplus budget revenue for additional payments to pensioners and compensations for the spiking electricity prices. The decision was moved by the government and was unanimously approved by the legislature with 201 votes in...
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Head of Unit Combating Organized Crime Charged with Pressuring a Prosecutor
December 23 (BTA) - The Sofia District Prosecutor's Office charged the director of the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime Kalin Stoyanov with trying to persuade a prosecutor to violate her official duty in connection with the administration of justice. Pre-trial procee...
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Prime Minister Says Each Vaccinated Pensioner Will Get Lv 75
December 23 (BTA) - Prime Minister Kiril Petkov Thursday said each pensioner who gets a COVID vaccine in the coming months or has received a booster shot will get a one-off payment of 75 leva. Petkov announced the government's economic measures aimed at stepping up the vaccinatio...
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COVID-19 Update: 1,463 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 5.63%
December 23 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 730,140, after 25,998 tests identified 1,463 new infections on Wednesday, 77.51 per cent of whom are unvaccinated, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stan...
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Parliament Elects Committee Leaders
December 22 (BTA) - At its plenary sitting here on Wednesday, Bulgaria's Parliament elected parliamentary committee chairs as follows: Committee on Budget and Finance, Lyubomir Karimanski (There Is Such a People (TISP)) Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, M...
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Five Deputy Ministers Appointed, State Agency for National Security Deputy Chairperson Released
December 22 (BTA) - Five deputy ministers were appointed by an order of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, the government's press service said on Wednesday. Iliya Iliev and Vladimir Varbanov were appointed deputy Transport and Communications Ministers. Iliya Iliev graduated from ...
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Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva Calls on Mobile Operators to Keep Current Prices
December 22 (BTA) - National Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva sent a letter to the CEOs of the three mobile operators, urging them not to change the prices of telecommunications services during the coronavirus pandemic, as this would seriously affect the pockets of citizens, Kov...
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TISP: No Ex-Communist Secret Service Agents Will Be Appointed in Foreign Ministry
December 22 (BTA) - There will not be a single adviser from the former communist-era State Security on the team of the Foreign Minister, There Is Such a People (TISP) floor leader Toshko Yordanov told journalists, following media publications about advisers of the new Minister of...
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Prosecutors Insist that High-profile Money Laundering Suspect Be Questioned before a Judge without Delay
December 22 (BTA) - The Prosecutor's Office wants Borislav Kolev, a suspect in a money laundering scheme using the construction of the Hemus Motorway, to be questioned before a judge without delay, its press office said on Wednesday in a statement. On Tuesday, in the presence ...
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Additional Revenues in Budget Amount to BGN 1.2 Bln, PM Kiril Petkov Says
December 22 (BTA) - "We have 1.2 billion leva in additional revenues in the country, which will be redirected to the National Assembly with a proposal on how to spend them," said Prime Minister Kiril Petkov after today's regular government meeting. "We believe this is the way to ...
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Democratic Bulgaria Calls for Parliamentary Hearing of Defence Minister over Possible NATO Troops Deployment Position
December 22 (BTA) - Democratic Bulgaria (DB) will request a hearing by the Defence Committee (when established) of the Minister of Defence in connection with his position on the deployment of additional troops on Bulgarian territory, DB floor leader Hristo Ivanov (Right in photo)...
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Private Lab Reports First Suspected Omicron Cases in Bulgaria
December 22 (BTA) - There is almost a 99 per cent certainty that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is now in Bulgaria, Nedyalko Kaluchev, an owner of private laboratories, told BTA here on Wednesday. He said that the results of one test were ready on Friday, while another five came...
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COVID-19 Update: 1,883 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 5.26%
December 22 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 728,677, after 35,809 tests identified 1,883 new infections on Tuesday, 79.50 per cent of which were of unvaccinated persons, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity ra...
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Prime Minister Petkov Confers with French Secretary of State for European Affairs Beaune
December 21 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov conferred with French Secretary of State for European Affairs Clement Beaune, the government press office said here on Tuesday. The two sides discussed the priorities of the French Presidency of the Council of the European...
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Defence Minister: Deployment of More NATO Troops in Bulgaria Would Be Unjustifiable
December 21 (BTA) - Bulgarian Defence Minister Stefan Yanev believes that deciding on deployment of additional NATO troops in Bulgaria would be unjustifiable. "Such a decision would not match the allies' interests or the national interests of Bulgaria," he wrote in a Facebook pos...
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Yasen Todorov Appointed Deputy Director of National Investigation Service
December 21 (BTA) - The Prosecutors' College of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) Tuesday appointed Yasen Todorov as Deputy Director of the National Investigation Service at the suggestion of Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev. The decision for the appointment was made unanimousl...
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Environment Ministry to Provide Lv 47 Mln. To Tackle Air Pollution
December 21 (BTA) - For the first time, the Bulgarian Environment and Water Ministry (EWM) will provide government-allocated funding to tackle air pollution, Deputy Prime Minister for Climate Policy and Environment Minister Borislav Sandov said at the start of the European Enviro...
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