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Outgoing Central Election Commission Reports on Its Five-Year Term
March 19 (BTA) - The Central Election Commission (CEC) on Tuesday reported on its five-year term-in-office which began on March 20 2014. During its term CEC organized five national elections, two national referendums, 119 partial elections. It assisted in the organization of 14 l...
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New Pension Calculation Rules to Be Revisited after Impact Assessment Finds They Will Lower Some Pensions
March 19 (BTA) - Following Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's meeting with the trade unions and the National Social Security Institute (NSSI) here Tuesday, steps will be taken to make sure not a single person's pension is lowered by revisions to the pension calculation rules that to...
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President Sets European Parliament Election Date on May 26
March 19 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev decreed that the elections for Bulgarian members of the European Parliament will be held on May 26, the President's Press Secretariat reported on Tuesday.
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Public Attitudes to NATO Are Nuanced but Idea for Bulgarian Exit Is Widely Rejected - Discussion
March 19 (BTA) - There are obvious nuances in the public attitudes to NATO in Bulgaria but there are no extremes or dramaticism and the idea for a Bulgarian exit is widely rejected, Gallup International Director Purvan Simeonov said here Tuesday as he presented poll findi...
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Interior Minister Marinov on US Visit
March 18 (BTA) - Interior Minister Mladen Marinov is paying a visit to the United States, his Ministry said. He is accompanied by Chief Commissioner Ivailo Spiridonov, head of the Directorate General for Combating Organized Crime, and Svetlan Kichikov, head of the Border Police D...
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New Pension Calculation Formula to be Analyzed Soon - Bisser Petkov
March 18 (BTA) - Labour and Social Policy Minister Bisser Petkov said a National Social Security Institute analysis on how the new formula for calculating pensions will affect their size, will be ready this week. He participated in the 18th annual conference of the European Cap...
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BSP's EP Top-list Candidate Yoncheva Recaps Suspected Corruption Cases She Has Helped Shed Light on
March 18 (BTA) - Socialist MP Elena Yoncheva, who was elected here on Sunday as the Bulgarian Socialist Party's (BSP) top-of-the-list candidate for the upcoming European Parliament (EP) elections in May, recapped the suspected corruption scandals she has helped shed light on,...
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Socialist Spokesperson Yoncheva Elected to Top Party's List for European Elections
March 17 (BTA)- The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) elected BSP Spokesperson and MP Elena Yoncheva to top BSP's list of candidates for the May elections for European Parliament. Yoncheva was elected at a plenum closed to the media after debates that went on for four ho...
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Twenty-eight Illegal Migrants Detained on Train in Southern City of Plovdiv
March 17 (BTA) - Twenty-seven illegal migrants were found on a train at a railway station in the southern city of Plovdiv, the Bulgarian National radio said on Sunday. The train was travelling from Turkey to Bulgaria, via Svilengrad (on the border with Turkey) to Sofia. Th...
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Non-EU Citizens Represent 1% of Bulgaria's Population
March 16 (BTA) - As at January 1, 2018, some 71,000 people with citizenship of a non-EU country were residing in Bulgaria, representing about 1 per cent of Bulgaria's population of 7,050,000, the Statistical Office of the European Commission (Eurostat) says in an analysis. At ...
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TIBEI Selected as Engineer in Construction of Greece-Bulgaria Gas Interconnector
March 16 (BTA) - The TIBEI consortium has been selected as the owner's engineer for the building of the Greece-Bulgaria natural gas interconnector, the ICGB project company said on Saturday. The owner's engineer is key for management and control of the realization of the proje...
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PM Borissov Convenes Meeting with Security Services over New Zealand Terror Attack
March 15 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and senior representatives of the security services conferred here late on Friday at the Council of Ministers in connection w...
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17 Municipalities Had Serious Financial Problems at End-2018
March 15 (BTA) - A Finance Ministry analysis shows that 17 of Bulgaria's 265 municipalities had serious financial problems at the end of 2018, the ministry's press office reported on Friday. This compares to 13 hard-up municipalities at the end of 2017.
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Bulgarian PM, Foreign Minister Cable Condolences to New Zealand Counterparts
March 15 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has cabled condolences to his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern in connection with the terrorist acts in Christchurch, the Government Information Service said Friday.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Tells US State Department that Bulgaria Expects to Receive Starting Date for OECD Membership Tal...
March 15 (BTA) - Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev held talks with senior officials of the US Department of State in Washington on March 14, the Foreign Ministry reported. He conferred with Peter Haas, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Econo...
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Deputy Prosecutor General Geshev Confers with FBI Deputy Director Bowdich
March 15 (BTA) - Bulgarian Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev, who is paying an official visit to the US, conferred in Washington with Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director David L. Bowdich, the Bulgarian prosecution service said in a press release on Friday. The...
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US Human Rights Report on Bulgaria: Authorities Take Steps to Address Human Rights Abuses, Impunity Remains Problem
March 14 (BTA) - The Bulgarian authorities took steps to prosecute and punish officials who committed human rights abuses, but government actions were insufficient, and impunity was a problem, reads the US Department of State's Human Rights report's section on Bulgaria. T...
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Bulgaria's Defence Expenditure for 2018 Estimated at 1.43%
March 14 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - Bulgaria's defence expenditure for 2018 is estimated at 1.43 per cent of GDP, show data on NATO countries' defence expenditure in the 2011-2018 period released by the Alliance on Thursday. The data also show that since 2015, ...
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Justice Minister: Prisons Not Overcrowded, Minimum Standards Ensured
March 14 (BTA) - Prisons are not overcrowded and the minimum standards for inmates have been ensured everywhere, said here Thursday Justice Minister Tsetska Tsacheva during a hearing in Parliament about prison conditions and government policy. Tsacheva said that major r...
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Forum Discusses Economy's Competitiveness and Prosperity
March 14 (BTA) - Opening a roundtable discussion mottoed "For a Competitive and Prosperous Bulgarian Economy" on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev admitted that low labour costs won't be a competitive advantage even in four to five years. Weeks earlier Prime Mi...
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