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Protesting Coal Miners Assured of Firm Government Support
November 29 (BTA) - About a thousand coal miners and members of the public took part in a protest in Sofia on Thursday, organized by the industrial federations affiliated to the Podkrepa Confederation of Labour. The protestors marched past the Representation of the European Co...
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Subsidies for Political Parties Remain Unchanged
November 29 (BTA) - The annual state subsidy for political parties will remain unchanged at 11 leva. This was voted without debate in Parliament Thursday as it continued the voting on the state budget for 2019. This was decided contrary to growing support for lowering the subs...
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Prime Minister Borissov Makes Official Visit to Morocco
November 29 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov met with Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani on Thursday. He is on a two-day official visit to Morocco, said the Government Information Service.
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Bulgaria Plans to Modernize Its T-72 Tanks - Minister
November 29 (BTA) - Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov told a news briefing here on Thursday that at its next meeting the Cabinet will decree the start of a modernization of the country's fleet of T-72 tanks. According to Military Balan...
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President: Climate Change Measures Should Be Kept within Agreed Benchmarks
November 29 (BTA) - Bulgaria backs the 2015 Paris Agreement and believes that climate change efforts are necessary and urgent. However, measures should be kept within the set agreements without further lowering the emission benchmarks and should take into consideration the state ...
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Parliament Adopts Ministries' 2019 Budgets
November 29 (BTA) - MPs adopted here late on Wednesday evening the different ministries' budgets for next year after voting texts of the 2019 State Budget Act. -- The Finance Ministry's expenditures are set at 521,211,000 leva. -- The Foreign Ministry's expenditures...
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National Ombudsman: Bonus-Malus System Violates Civil Rights
November 28 (BTA) - In a position to Financial Supervision Commission head Karina Karaivanova, National Ombudsman Maya Manolova says that the bonus-malus system to be used in motor third party liability (MTPL) insurance rating violates civil rights, the Ombudsman's office...
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Security Council with Cabinet Adopts Position on Ukraine-Russia Sea Clash
November 28 (BTA) - The Security Council with the Bulgarian Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, has adopted a position on the clash between Ukrainian and Russian navy ships in the area of the Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov, the Government Information Service said...
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Eight Charged with Drug Possession, Distribution in Sofia and Bourgas
November 28 (BTA) - The prosecuting magistracy said Wednesday that it has pressed charges against eight persons from Sofia and the coastal city of Bourgas for their alleged involvement in a drug dealing ring. The suspects were arrested in a police operation on Tuesday.
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Parliament Votes Conclusively State Public Social Insurance Budget for Next Year
November 28 (BTA) - The minimum contributory pension in Bulgaria will be 219.43 leva as of July 1, 2019 and all pensions will be adjusted by 5.7 per cent from the same date. This was decided by Parliament as it adopted conclusively the 2019 budget of the State Public Social Insur...
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Protesting Miners in Radnevo Demand Long-term Programme for Maritsa East Mines
November 28 (BTA) - Two thousand miners and power engineers from the Maritsa East coal mines gathered for a protest in Radnevo on Wednesday. They demand that by the end of February the government develops and introduces a long-term programme for the mines' work for the next 20 ye...
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Bulgaria Has EU's Largest Increase in Export-Supported Jobs in Relative Terms in 2000-2017
November 28 (BTA) - A European Commission report entitled "EU Exports to the World: Effects on Employment and Income" found that Bulgaria was the Member State with the strongest increase in export-supported jobs, 312 per cent, in relative terms between 2000 and 2017 - the period ...
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Parliament Passes Conclusively 2019 National Health Insurance Fund Budget, Socialists to Challenge its Constitutionality
November 27 (BTA) - Parliament Tuesday passed conclusively the 2019 National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) Budget Bill. In addition to setting the financial framework for NHIF, it also paves the way to some major changes in the structure of Bulgarian health care. The debates la...
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Bulgarian Judges Association Support Judge Panov for his Speech in MEDEL Conference
November 27 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Judges Association (BJA) declared full support for Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) President Lozan Panov in relation to a speech he held on November 16 at a conference of the European Magistrates for Democracy and Liberty (MEDEL), the associatio...
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Presidents of Bulgaria and Poland Call for De-escalation of Russia-Ukraine Tension
November 27 (BTA) - The Presidents of Bulgaria and Poland, Rumen Radev and Andrzej Duda, Tuesday called for de-escalation of tension between Russia and Ukraine. They were speaking at a joint news conference during Duda's official visit to Bulgaria. Radev said that the...
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Black Sea MAP Project Places Bulgaria on Maritime Archaeology Map - Experts
November 27 (BTA) - With the series of shipwrecks it has discovered, the Black Sea MAP maritime archaeology project has placed Bulgaria on the map of maritime research. Such finds are very few and extremely rare, and they cannot be found elsewhere, the head of the Centre ...
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Interior Minister Marinov: Macedonian-Bulgarian Communication Is Excellent
November 27 (BTA) - The communication between Bulgaria and Macedonia is excellent both at the political and the professional level, Bulgarian Interior Minister Mladen Marinov said at a meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Oliver Spasovski here on Tuesday. Bulgaria is r...
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Bulgaria, Vietnam Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Labour, Social Policy
November 27 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Labour and Social Policy Minister Bisser Petkov and Vietnam's Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Minister Dao Ngoc Dung have signed a Memorandum of Understanding between their ministries, Petkov's Ministry said in a press release on Monday....
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Interior Minister Marinov Urges Regional Interaction in Fight against Corruption
November 26 (BTA) - Addressing a regional forum in Sofia on the fight against internal corruption, Bulgarian Interior Minister Mladen Marinov stated that since the fight against corruption is not just a high priority of every government and an indicator of the rule of law...
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Southeastern Europe Needs to Build More Gas and Electricity Infrastructure
November 26 (BTA) - Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova Monday called for building necessary infrastructure for natural gas and electric power in Southeastern Europe in order to press ahead with the integration of the national energy markets. One of the main energy prio...
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