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GERB Leadership, Leaders of United Patriots Hold Talks
March 31 (BTA) - The leadership of GERB, the party who won the highest number of seats in the next Parliament, including GERB leader and former prime minister Boyko Borissov, and the leaders of the parties in the United Patriots coalition: Valeri Simeonov, Krasssimir Karakachanov...
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Movement for Rights and Freedoms Alerts Prosecutor General about Nationalists' Blockade of Border with Turkey before Ma...
March 31 (BTA) - Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Chairman Mustafa Karadayi has alerted Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov about "acts of violence on the part of representatives of nationalist entities at the checkpoints on Bulgaria's border with Turkey on March 24," the MR...
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340 Foreign Workers Posted to Bulgaria in 2016
March 31 (BTA) - For January and February 2017, the General Labour Inspectorate (GLI) received applications from foreign employers for actual start of work in Bulgaria of 81 workers posted from other EU Member States or third countries, most of whom from Spain, Romania and Belar...
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Antitrust Watchdog Detects Conscious Parallelism Rather than Cartel in Fuel Market
March 31 (BTA) - "There is conscious parallelism rather than a cartel in fuel trade," Commission on Protection of Competition (CPC) Yulia Nenkova told journalists here on Friday. In October 2016, the CPC launched a check into the operation of six fuel retail chains on suspicion o...
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Patriarch Neophyte Confers with Initiators of Bulgarian Orthodox Church Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
March 31 (BTA) - Patriarch Neophyte has met with attorney Moshe Aloni, one of the initiators of the nomination of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for the Nobel Peace Prize for saving 48,000 Bulgarian Jews from the Nazi death camps in World War II, a press release published on the w...
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Expatriates in Turkey Want Ankara to Hold Bulgaria's DOST Party Responsible for Election Failure
March 31 (BTA exclusive by Nahide Deniz) - The Bulturk association of Bulgarian Turks has called on the authorities in Turkey to hold Bulgaria's DOST party responsible for its poor showing in last Sunday's early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria. The appeal has been published i...
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Bulgaria's North West Region Is Poorest in EU - Eurostat
March 30 (BTA) - In 2015, regional GDP per capita, expressed in terms of purchasing power standards, ranged from slightly less than 30 per cent of the European Union (EU) average in the Bulgarian North West Region to 580 per cent of the average in Inner London - West in the Unite...
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Bulgaria Has Lowest in EU Cloud Computing Use in Enterprises - Eurostat
March 30 (BTA) - In 2016 Bulgaria had the smallest market for cloud computing services in the EU, a Eurostat analysis in cloud computing use in EU enterprises released on Thursday says.
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Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary Expand Free Route Airspace for Night Flights
March 30 (BTA) - Starting on March 30, the Bulgarian Air Traffic Services Authority (BULATSA), together with the air navigation services providers of Romania, ROMATSA and Hungary, HungaroControl, expand the Free Route Airspace for flights during the night within the three countr...
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Specialized Prosecution Office Plans to Bring Corpbank Case to Court before Mid-July
March 30 (BTA) - The Specialized Prosecution Office (SPO) plans to take the case about the syphoning of Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) to court before July 15, which is when courts go on vacation, said SPO Chief Ivan Geshev at a Thursday news conference.
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Ombudsman Manolova Suggests Revisions of Four Laws to Protect Worker Rights in Case of Unpaid Salaries
March 30 (BTA) - Ombudsman Maya Manolova suggested that revisions to four laws should be made to defend the rights of workers when their salaries are not paid. She was speaking at a public discussion she organized Thursday. The discussion was on the subject of "Legal Guarantees f...
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Household Electricity Price to Be Hiked by Nearly 1 Per Cent as from April 1
March 30 (BTA) - The household electricity price in Bulgaria will rise by nearly 1 per cent, effective April 1, 2017. The increase, varying by electricity distribution company, was discussed by the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) meeting behind closed doors on Thurs...
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Central Election Commission Declares Official Results of March 26 Elections: 95 Seats for GERB, 80 Seats for BSP, 27 Sea...
March 30 (BTA) - The Central Election Commission (CEC) Thursday declared the official results of the voting in the early parliamentary elections and the allocation of seats in the 44th National Assembly by party and coalitions countrywide and in the separate constituencies.
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Industry in Bulgaria Has One of the Highest Profit Rates in Europe but Pays Some of the Lowest Salaries - Trade Union
March 30 (BTA) - Industry in Bulgaria has one of the highest profit rates in Europe but pays some of the lowest salaries in the EU, an expert analysis of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) shows. The results were presented at a national conference t...
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21,950,000 Cigarettes without Excise Revenue Stamps Found, Impounded in International Police Operation
March 30 (BTA) - A total of 21,950,000 cigarettes without excise revenue stamps have been found and impounded in an international police operation which started back in 2015, the Interior Ministry said in a press release Thursday.
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Energy Ministry Reports Increase in Concession Revenue Collection
March 30 (BTA) - The collection of concession revenues by the Energy Ministry in the first three months of 2017 improved by 23 percentage points compared with a year earlier, the ministry reported on Thursday. Between January and March 2017, the ministry collected 27,685,218 leva...
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President Radev Reacts to Decision to Withdraw Architectural Reserve Status of Town of Koprivshtitsa
March 30 (BTA )- In a social media post on Thursday President Rumen Radev urged all competent entities to forthwith revise or halt the decision of the municipal council in the town of Koprivshtitsa to withdraw the architectural reserve status of the town.
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Prosecutors Investigate Border Protests against Voters from Turkey
March 30 (BTA) - The prosecution service has begun to investigate a March 24 protest rally at the Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint on Bulgaria's border with Turkey which was seen as an unacceptable attempt to prevent Bulgarian citizens from exercising their right to vote.
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Reformist Bloc Remains United despite Poor Election Showing
March 29 (BTA) - Meeting on Wednesday, the coordination board of the right-wing Reformist Bloc concluded that its showing in Sunday's parliamentary elections was poor, and adopted the resignation of the political board. The coalition won 3.06 per cent in the elections, well be...
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Jan/Feb 2017 Tourist Visits of Foreigners in Bulgaria up 18.6% Y/Y - Ministry
March 29 (BTA) - In the first two months of 2017 foreigner tourist trips to Bulgaria increased by 18.6 per cent year-on-year, data of the Ministry of Tourism show. The information was released at a Wednesday news conference, at which the caretaker Minister of Tourism, Stella Bank...
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