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Bulgaria Continues to Fall in World Press Freedom Index, Ranking Lowest in EU
April 25 (BTA) - Bulgaria continues to fall in the World Press Freedom Index and is ranked 111th in the world - lower than any other European Union member, says the annual report by the international NGO Reporters without Borders. Bulgaria's ranking deteriorated from 2017, when i...
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PM Borissov: Bulgaria, Greece and Romania Must Do Everything Possible for Serbia to Join EU
April 24 (BTA) - Bulgaria, Greece and Romania must do everything possible for Serbia to join the EU family, said here Tuesday Prime Minister Boyko Borissov at a news conference following the High-Level Cooperation Council between Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Serbia.
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Social Partners Fail to Reach Agreement to Relaxed Terms for Import of Skilled Workers from non-EU Countries
April 24 (BTA) - The Tripartite Council of government, trade unions and employers failed to agree Tuesday on relaxed terms for issue of the so called "Blue Card" which allows skilled workers from non-EU countries to work in Bulgaria. The failure to reach an agreement was announce...
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Bulgaria's Aspiration to Join OECD Is on Agenda of Minister Liliyana Pavlova during OECD Forum
April 24 (BTA) - Bulgaria is ready to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and is expecting its roadmap for preparation and opening the accession talk chapters, Liliyana Pavlova, the government minister in charge of the Bulgarian Presidency of the...
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Customs Duty and VAT Revenues Fall Drastically Behind Imports and GDP Growth, Study Shows
April 24 (BTA) - There is no logical explanation why customs duty revenues in Bulgaria have fallen drastically behind imports and why VAT and excise duty revenues have fallen behind GDP growth. This is one of the conclusions of Vesselin Iliev, Chief Director for International Eco...
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Ombudsman: Unjustifiable Increase of Heating Bills Is Interest-Free Loan for Heating Utilities from Users
April 24 (BTA) - Ombudsman Maya Manolova met Tuesday with the CEO of Toplofikatsia Sofia heating utility, Sasho Chakalski, to discuss a significant increase of heating bills for March, her office said. Manolova said what she sees as a striking increase of the bills is an interest...
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PM Borissov Talks about Balkans' EU Perspective at SEECP Summit
April 24 (BTA) - Speaking at the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Summit in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia, on Tuesday, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that there is no alternative to the Balkans' EU perspective and that the SEECP remains a leading politica...
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Parliament Chair Karayancheva: Preserving EU's Unity Is Only Way to Overcome Challenges
April 24 (BTA) - Speaking at the Conference of Speakers of the EU Parliaments in Tallinn on Tuesday, Bulgarian National Assembly Chair Tsveta Karayancheva told her EU colleagues that preserving the Union's unity and protecting their common interests is the only way to overcome th...
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Tobacco Growers Receive over Lv 84.4 Mln for 2017 Campaign
April 24 (BTA) - State Fund Agriculture has transferred 84,471,000 leva of subsidies to 41,323 farmers under the scheme for transitional national aid for tobacco not related to production, the Fund said Tuesday. The subsidy has been paid in full for the 2017 campaign to producers...
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No Bulgarians Hurt in Toronto Van Incident
April 24 (BTA) - At present, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry does not have information whether any Bulgarian nationals were hurt in Monday's incident in Toronto, Canada, where a van sped across sidewalks, killing 10 and injuring 16 pedestrians, the ministry said on its website on ...
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Parliament Chair Karayancheva Participates in Conference of EU Parliaments' Speakers in Tallinn, Holds Meetings with Par...
April 23 (BTA) - On the sidelines of the Conference of Speakers of the EU Parliaments in Tallinn on Monday, Bulgarian National Assembly Chair Tsveta Karayancheva held a number of meetings with parliamentarians from European countries.
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Minister Pavlova Participates in Forum on Funding Projects in Western Balkans
April 23 (BTA) - Liliyana Pavlova, Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, participated in a working meeting dedicated to EU-Western Balkans relations here on Monday. The forum on the opportunities for investment and funding of projects in the region gathe...
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Informal Meeting of EU Health Ministers Discusses Healthy Nutrition for Children, Accessibility of Medicines and Future ...
April 23 (BTA) - Emerging from an informal meeting of the EU ministers of health, EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis who is in charge of health and foods, commented that it is not easy to build a common regulatory framework for food quality. He added that food safety is guarant...
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German Investments in Bulgaria Total EUR 130 Million in 2017
April 23 (BTA) - In 2017 the German investments in Bulgaria totalled 130 million euro, it emerged at a meeting between Economy Minister Emil Karanikolov and representatives of the German-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Karanikolov's Ministry said in a press release Mo...
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Best Option for Protection of Citizens' Rights Is Network of Ombudsmen
April 23 (BTA) - The best option for the protection of the citizens' rights is the network of ombudsmen, national and local, National Ombudsman Maya Manolova said Monday, speaking at a public discussion on amendments to the Local Self-government and Local Administration Act which...
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Council of Europe Presents Report on Migration Dedicated to Bulgaria
April 23 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The Council of Europe Monday published a report on migrants and refugees dedicated to Bulgaria. The document recognises the efforts made by Bulgaria to cope with the challenges of a high number of arrivals of migrants and refugees,...
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Bulgaria Has Relatively Low Market Share of Contraband Cigarettes, But It Is Still a Problem
April 23 (BTA) - The market share of contraband cigarettes in Bulgaria was 6.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2017 compared with 6 per cent in the third quarter of 2017. It decreased by 1.2 percentage points compared with the fourth quarter of 2016, activists of the Initiative...
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Political Party Starts Sign-in for Holding National Referendum against Introduction of Euro
April 23 (BTA) - The Vuzrazhdane [Revival] political party (not represented in Parliament) Monday starts a sign-in campaign for holding a national referendum against the introduction of the euro in Bulgaria, party Chairman Kostadin Kostadinov told a BTA-hosted news conference.
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Population of Five Regional Capitals Increases in 2017
April 23 (BTA) - The population of five of Bulgaria's 27 regional capitals increased in 2017. These capitals were Kurdjali, Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna, and Veliko Turnovo, the last four of which also saw a population increase in 2016, according to data from the National Statistical In...
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Giant Bulgarian Horo Dance Takes Place in Brussels
April 22 (BTA) - A Giant Bulgarian Horo wound around Grand Place in Brussels on Sunday for the second year in a row. The traditional chain dance involved Bulgarians and people from other countries of the Balkans, Europe, and the world, the Ministry for the Bulgarian Presidency of...
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