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Head of Appellate Specialized Prosecution Office Resigns
March 14 (BTA) - The head of the Appellate Specialized Prosecution Office, Daniela Popova, was relieved of office by a decision of the prosecutors' college of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on her own request. No motives for the resignation were made public.
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Migration, Corruption, Cybersecurity Are Among Key Challenges in Updated National Security Strategy
March 14 (BTA) - Migration pressure, corruption and cybersecurity are among the key challenges in an update of the national security strategy that was approved by Parliament Wednesday. The updated strategy was passed on 118-4 votes with 35 abstentions. The economic aspects of sec...
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One Dead and One Injured in Fire in Arsenal Ordnance Factory
March 14 (BTA) - One man worker died and another one was badly burnt in a fire in the Arsenal ordnance factory on Wednesday. The company said that the incident occurred around 10:20 am in one of the plant's workshops.
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Government Plans New Enterprise As Owner Responsible for Dams
March 14 (BTA) - The Government intends to establish an enterprise to which the responsibility for dams that cannot be managed will be transferred with the agreement of the relevant municipalities. The aim is for this enterprise to be responsible for the repair and maintenance of...
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Parliament Passes Conclusively New Anti-money Laundering Measures Act
March 14 (BTA) - Parliament Wednesday passed conclusively a new Anti-money Laundering Measures Act. The new law's implementation will be monitored by the Chairman of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) through control bodies from the SANS' Financial Intelligence Dire...
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Ad Hoc Committee to Look Into Privatization, Planned Sale of CEZ Bulgaria
March 14 (BTA) - At its plenary sitting on Wednesday, Parliament supported with 174 votes in favour and one abstention the Left wing's proposal to set up an ad hoc committee which is to look into the facts about the privatization and planned sale of Czech energy group CEZ's asset...
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Bulgarian Foreign Ministry Reacts to Turkish President's Comment Mentioning Kurdjali
March 14 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry Tuesday published on its website a position on a comment by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioning the southern Bulgarian city of Kurdjali. The position reads that today's state borders have been affirmed with internation...
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Deputy PM Karakachanov Attends B9 Defence Ministers Meeting in Bucharest
March 13 (BTA) - Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov took part in a Bucharest-9 (B9) Initiative Defence Ministers Meeting that opened in Bucharest on Tuesday, Karakachanov's Ministry said in a press release.
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Prosecutor General Tsatsarov Meets with Slovenian Counterpart Sketa
March 13 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov and Slovenian State Prosecutor General Drago Sketa signed a memorandum of cooperation in Ljubljana on Tuesday.
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President Radev: "I Welcomed Russian Patriarch Kirill as Spiritual Leader, He Chose to Leave as Politician"
March 13 (BTA) - "I welcomed His Holiness Patriarch Kirill as a spiritual leader. He chose to leave as a politician," Bulgarian President Rumen Radev told journalists here on Tuesday in his first comment on controversial remarks that the head of the Russian Orthodox Church made a...
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Thirteen Municipalities Need Financial Recovery
March 14 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Finance Ministry Tuesday released data on the financial position of municipalities in 2017 and on municipalities in a financial recovery procedure in 2018. According to the Ministry, 13 municipalities now need financial recovery, down from 32 a year...
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President to Convene Consultative Council for National Security on Energy Security Issues
March 13 (BTA) - Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said here on Tuesday that he will convene a Consultative Council for National Security in the second half of April to consider matters concerning the country's energy security in connection the sale of CEZ Group's Bulgarian assets.
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Mario Draghi Says ECB Views Positively Bulgaria's Aspiration for ERM II Entry
March 13 (BTA) - The European Central Bank (ECB) views positively Bulgaria's aspiration to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II), the euro zone waiting room. This transpired from remarks by ECB President Mario Draghi as he met Monday with Party of European Socialists (PES) Pr...
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Romania and Greece Support Balkan Gas Hub Project, European Integration of Western Balkans
March 12 (BTA) - The Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Greece issued a joint declaration expressing support for the construction of the Balkan Gas Hub and for the European integration of the Western Balkans. The declaration was adopted during the Bucharest meeting of the...
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Bulgaria's ICT Sector Turnover Trebled over Last Seven Years - Deputy Economy Minister
March 12 (BTA) - A European Conference entitled "EURONET-Italian Networking around Europe: INnovation and INTERNATIONalization in DIGITAL SOCIETY within the Bulgarian Presidency of EU 2018" opened here on Monday.
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Experts Blame Unlocked Switch, Not High Speed for Hitrino Train Disaster
March 12 (BTA) - An unlocked railway switch and not high speed caused the Hitrino train disaster, Bulmarket DM Ltd. Security Manager Svetoslav Parvanov told a BTA-hosted news conference on Monday.
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In Macedonia, Borissov and Zaev Commemorate Jews of World War II
March 12 (BTA special correspondent Antoan Nikolov) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov attended a ceremony in Skopje Monday commemorating the 75th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the land of present-day Macedonia to Nazi concentration camps during World War II....
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Prosecutor General Challenges Constitutionality of New Private Security Business Act
March 12 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov has approached the Constitutional Court with a petition to declare uconstitutional certain provisions of the new Private Security Business Act, gazetted on January 30, 2018, as contrary to the principles of the legal ...
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Russian Patriarch Kirill Himself Suggested Dropping Subject of Russo-Turkish War, Paying of Respect
March 12 (BTA) - During his March 4 session with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Russian Patriarch Kirill himself proposed that the subject of the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War and the paying of respect be dropped, it emerged from a statement of Protoiereus Nikolai Georgiev, Head ...
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Bulgarian National Theatre, Five Balkan National Theatres Establish Association
March 11 (BTA) - The Ivan Vazov National Theatre and five national theatres of Balkan countries Saturday established an Association of the Balkan National Theatres.
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