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Contractor Selection Procedure for Greece-Bulgaria Gas Interconnector Begins by Year's End
June 15 (BTA) - A procedure for the selection of a contractor for the engineering and the supply of the pipes and equipment for building the gas interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (ICGB) will be launched by the year's end, the Executive Director of the ICGB Bulgarian-Greek company, T...
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Prime Minister Borissov Confers with Lukoil President Alekperov
June 15 (BTA) - The Government will work for ensuring a favourable business environment in Bulgaria and making it an attractive destination for foreign investors, said here Thursday Prime Minister Boyko Borissov during meeting with the President of the Russian Lukoil oil company,...
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National Assembly Rejects Change of Parliamentary Election System from Proportional Representation to Two-Round Majorit...
June 15 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Parliament Thursday voted down on first reading a bill amending the Election Code that would have replaced proportional representation by a two-round majoritarian system with an absolute majority for parliamentary elections. The vote was 98 in favour (G...
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Energy Minister Petkova: State's Participation in Belene N-plant's Privatization to Be Minimal
June 15 (BTA) - The 12th annual conference on Strategic Infrastructure and Investment started here on Thursday with the participation of Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova. Answering a question about the future of the Belene N-plant project, she told journalists that the St...
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Defence Minister Karakachanov Awards Servicemen Who Rescued Crashed Helicopter Crew
June 15 (BTA) - Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov and Chief of Defence Lieutenant General Andrei Botsev awarded on Thursday 14 servicemen, who took part in the rescue operation to save the crew of the Bulgarian Navy AS Panther 565 MB helicopter, which crashed in the Black S...
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Deputy Prime Minister Donchev Attends Cohesion Policy Meeting in Warsaw
June 14 (BTA) - "The debate on the future EU convergence policy should on the priorities first and foremost. What direction will Europe take after 2020?", said Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev in Warsaw at a meeting of ministers in charge of cohesion policies of the Visegra...
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Bulgaria and Ukraine Consider Joint Participation in Ground Force Exercises
June 14 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Chief of Defence, Lieutenant General Andrei Botsev, and Ukraine's Ground Forces Commander, Lieutenat General Serhiy Popko, met here on June 13 to discuss joint participation of the two countries' military in ground force exercises.
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Over 20 Customs Officers Detained in Operation at Koulata Checkpoint
June 14 (BTA) - Over 20 customs officials have been detained in an operation at the Koulata checkpoint on the border with Greece, Ivan Geshev, Head of the Specialized Prosecution Office said. They are charged with demanding unsolicited payments from drivers passing across the bor...
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Wheat Crop Expected to Exceed 5 Million Tonnes
June 14 (BTA) - Bulgaria's wheat crop this year is expected to exceed 5 million tonnes, Deputy Agriculture Minister Atanas Dobrev said on Wednesday, as quoted by his ministry. Dobrev was speaking at the opening of the wheat harvesting campaign in Karnobat, Southeastern Bulgaria.
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Nine Arrested in Bulgaria in International Police Operation against ATM Skimmers
June 14 (BTA) - Nine people have been arrested in Bulgaria in a joint international police operation against ATM skimmers, which resulted in a total of 31 arrests - 21 in Spain, and one in the Czech Republic. Earlier on Wednesday, media outlets reported that a Bulgarian-Spanis...
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MRF Won't Support Majoritarian Voting System
June 14 (BTA) - The parliamentary group of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) has decided against support for a bill to amend the Election Code which will introduce a majoritarian voting system. This emerged from a statement to the media by MRF deputy floor leader Yordan ...
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Statistical Institute Reports 0.3% Deflation in May
June 14 (BTA) - The National Statistical Institute reported a 0.3 per cent deflation in May, compared to April.
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Foreign Ministry: No Information about Injured Bulgarians in London Residential Building Fire
June 14 (BTA) - There is no information about injured Bulgarian citizens in a residential building fire in London, which erupted in the early hours of Wednesday, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in a press release. The information was last updated at 9:30 am on Wednesday, Bulg...
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Prosecutor General Tsatsarov Pays Visit to Azerbaijan
June 14 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov is paying a two-day working visit to Azerbaijan at the invitation of his counterpart Zakir Garalov, said Tsatsarov's Office on Tuesday. Among the topics discussed were interaction on legal aid cases, perfecting e-servi...
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PM Borissov Confers with Turkish President Erdogan
June 14 (BTA Special Correspondent Hristo Vodenov) - Bulgaria will ask for a bilateral readmission agreement with Turkey if the latter fails to conclude such an agreement with the EU, said Prime Minister Boyko Borissov after meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on ...
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PM Borissov: Bulgaria Can Help Improve EU-Turkey Relations with Diplomacy
June 13 (BTA Special Correspondent Hristo Vodenov) - Emerging from a meeting here on Tuesday with Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov voiced hope that the good tone and tolerance in the EU-Turkey relations will resume in a calmer atmospher...
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Bulgaria Receives 47 Migrants Under EU Relocation Quotas by June
June 13 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - Bulgaria has received a total of 47 migrants relocated under EU quotas by the beginning of June, 2017, show data presented by the European Commission on Tuesday.
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Socialists to Petition Constitutional Court to Repeal Texts from Public Finances Act
June 13 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will petition the Constitutional Court this week to repeal texts from the Public Finances Act, which allow State financing for municipalities to be extended by the Council of Ministers and not through the National Budget Act, sa...
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PES Leader Stanishev Urges for Social Action Plan for Europe
June 13 (BTA) - Meeting with European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker and EU Commissioner for Employment Marianne Thyssen in Strasbourg on Monday, Party of European Socialists (PES) leader Sergey Stanishev said that only a social Europe can restore trust in the ins...
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CITUB President Plamen Dimitrov Reelected to ILO Governing Body
June 13 (BTA) - At the 106th Session of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, the President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB), Plamen Dimitrov, was reelected as member of its Governing Body, CITUB said on Tuesday.
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