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PM Borissov: Pressure at Border Is Strong, but Control Is Tight
August 4 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov on Saturday visited the border police department in the town of Malko Turnovo to familiarize himself with the situation and the available equipment there. Borissov said that over 2,500 migrants have been repatriated in nearly a ye...
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Welcomes Constitutional Court's Decision on Istanbul Convention
August 3 (BTA) - The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church issued an address Friday welcoming the decision of the Constitutional Court of July 27 that the Istanbul Convention (formally: the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and ...
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Extension of Transit Gas Pipeline to Turkey Commissioned
August 3 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Friday cut the ribbon of an extension of the transit gas pipeline to Turkey. The 20 km section connects the Lozenets Compressor Station and the Nedyalsko Pigging Facility.
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Bulgarian Navy Receives New High-speed Motor Boats from United States
August 3 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Navy Friday received four new high-speed motor boats in an official donation from the United States. The handover ceremony was attended by United States Ambassador to Bulgaria Eric Rubin, Navy Commander Rear Admieal Mitko Petev, officials from the c...
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Gallup Poll: 34% of Adult Bulgarians Claim to Have Come Across Fake News in Past Week
August 3 (BTA) - The results of an express telephone poll, conducted by Gallup International among 800 respondents between July 30 and August 1, were announced here on Friday. A total of 34 per cent of respondents claim to have come across fake news during the past week, show the...
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Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Macedonia Mark Jointly 115th Anniversary of Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
August 2 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev marked jointly the 115th anniversary of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising at the monument to revolutionary Gotse Delchev in the city. A memorial service was held in front of the two countrie...
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Court Orders Central Election Commission to Implement Machine Voting within Six Months
August 2 (BTA) - Granting an action brought by former Reformist Bloc MPs Martin Dimitrov and Peter Slavov, the Sofia Administrative Court has ordered the Central Election Commission (CEC) to procure voting machines as an alternative to voting by paper ballots for all voting secti...
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Trade Union Bashes WB Spending Review on Policing and Firefighting in Bulgaria
August 2 (BTA) - The influential Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) slammed Thursday a World Bank report on the efficiency of spending for policing and firefighting and more particularly its conclusions about the level of personnel costs.
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National Ombudsman Institution Handled 75,339 Cases since 2015
August 2 (BTA) - Since her election as National Ombudsman in 2015, the office of Maya Manolova has handed 75,339 cases, she said on Thursday, reporting back on her work.
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National Electricity Company Reports LV 74 Mln Loss in First Half of 2018, Says Belene N-plant's Future Is Unclear
August 2 (BTA) - The National Electricity Company (NEK) reported a net loss of 74 million leva in the first half of 2018, the Finance Ministry said Thursday. The outstanding loss from previous years amounted to 1,186,308,000 leva and the value of current liabilities exceeded the ...
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Trade Union Sets Monthly Cost of Living for Family of Four at Lv 2,361.28
August 2 (BTA) - A family of four with two dependent children needs an average of 2,361.28 leva monthly to pay the cost of food, home maintenance, healthcare, transport and recreation, according to the latest figures released by the Institute for Social and Trade Union Research (...
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Gas Transmission Operator Bulgartransgaz Reports Operating Profit of LV 43.9 Mln in H1 of 2018
August 2 (BTA) - Gas transmission and storage operator Bulgartransgaz had an operating profit of 43.9 million leva in the first half of 2018, according to a report published by the Finance Ministry. Its revenues stood at 185.6 million leva.
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New Type of Allowance Proposed for Families of Children Who Have Lost a Parent
August 1 (BTA) - Families of children who have lost a parent may receive a new type of monthly allowance, beginning in 2019, Labour and Social Policy Minister Bisser Petkov told journalists in the Council of Ministers offices on Wednesday.
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PM Borissov Orders Check of Day Care Centres for Disabled People
August 1 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has ordered an inspection of the day care centres for disabled people, the government's information service said on Wednesday.
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Budget Shows Lv 1,700 Mln Surplus by June 2018
July 31 (BTA) - On Wednesday the Bulgarian Finance Ministry released data on the performance of the Consolidated Fiscal Programme (CFP) as of June 30, 2018 and preliminary data and estimates for July.
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President Vetoes Administrative Procedure Code Amendments
July 31 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev has returned the Act Amending and Supplementing the Administrative Procedure Code for further consideration by the National Assembly, the President's press secretariat reported on Tuesday.
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Rival Organizations of Disabled People, Government Come Closer to Ironing Out Differences about Disability Policies
July 31 (BTA) - After a meeting in the building of the Council of Ministers in Sofia with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov which went on for more than five hours on Tuesday, representatives of organizations of disabled people, protesting parents of disabled children and government o...
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Interior Ministry Agrees with Some Conclusions in WB Policing and Firefighting Spending Survey, Finds Others Incorrect
July 31 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Interior Ministry agrees with some of the conclusions in a World Bank (WB) Spending Review on Policing and Firefighting in Bulgaria published recently but finds some things outdated as they are based on 2015-16 data, Interior Minister Valentin Radev ...
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Defence Ministry Plans Renewal of Su-25 Fighter Jets' Airworthiness
July 31 (BTA) - There are plans to sign a contract for the maintenance and airworthiness renewal of the Su-25 fighter jets, Deputy Defence Minister Anatoliy Velichkov told journalists here on Tuesday.
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Vice President Iotova: Creation of Bulgarian Cultural Institute Is Big Idea Requiring National Consensus
July 31 (BTA) - Vice President Iliyana Iotova said Tuesday during a meeting with the leadership of the Association of Bulgarian Schools Abroad that the creation of a Bulgarian cultural institute similar to the Spanish Instituto Cervantes and the German Goethe Institute is a big i...