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PM Borissov, Chinese Businesses Discuss Investment Opportunities in Bulgaria
January 11 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Wednesday met with representatives of Chinese big businesses, who are in Bulgaria to look into investment opportunities, the government information service said.
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Government Sells Concessions for Six Beaches
January 11 (BTA) - The government sold concessions for six beaches on Wednesday. The concessionaires were picked on a competitive basis. They will manage the beaches for a period of twenty years.
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Parliament Votes Down Motion to Reverse Decision on Suspension of Belene N-plant Project
January 11 (BTA) - Parliament voted down Wednesday a motion to reverse a decision for scrapping the Belene N-plant project. The motion was defeated on 64-50 votes with 24 abstentions. The decision to suspend the Belene project as financially unviable was adopted by Parliament ...
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Government Extends Lv 23 Mln in Advance Funding for Hemus Motorway
January 11 (BTA) - The Government has provided additional costs under the budget of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works to the amount of 22,880,400 leva for advance funding of the completion of Hemus motorway, the Council of Ministers information service said We...
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Parliament Postpones Voting on Draft Resolution about November 6 National Referendum
January 11 (BTA) - On a motion by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms Parliament Wednesday postponed taking a vote on a draft resolution tabled by GERB in connection with the November 6, 2016 national referendum. The item was rejected when it was first put to the vote, and then ...
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Parliament Passes on First Reading Stricter Penalties for Human Traffickers
January 11 (BTA) - Parliament Wednesday passed on first reading a Bill to Amend and Supplement the Criminal Code tabled by MP Mariana Todorova of ABV and a group of MPs. The new texts provide for more severe penalties for human trafficking, traffickers and illegal assistance to f...
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President-elect Set on Promptly Appointing Caretaker Government and Dissolving Parliament
January 10 (BTA) - President-elect Rumen Radev has written in a position paper that he intends to adhere strictly to the Constitution and after taking office on January 22 he will immediately appoint a caretaker government, dissolve the National Assembly and set a date for parlia...
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Sofia District Court Judges Appeal for Unity among Professional Community
January 10 (BTA) - Judges from the Sofia District Court on Tuesday called on fellow judges not to allow a division between judges in Sofia and those the country. The Sofia judges warn about "the wrong politicized use of the fair discontent of the judges and staff of the Sofia Dis...
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Legal Committee Postpones Discussion of National Referendum Draft Decision
January 10 (BTA) - With six votes in favour and 11 against the parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee did not accept to discuss the draft decision tabled by GERB in relation to the national referendum held on November 6, 2016. The item was dropped from the committee agenda by a mo...
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Charges Pressed against Publisher, Businessman Ivo Prokopiev in Case about Selling State-owned Shares in EVN Electricity...
January 10 (BTA) - The prosecuting magistracy has pressed charges against publisher Ivo Prokopiev in the case about the sale of the state-owned shares in the EVN electricity distribution company in 2011, the prosecuting magistracy said Tuesday.
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National Audit Office Finds Considerable Increase of Municipal Debts in 2014
January 10 (BTA) - The National Audit Office said Tuesday it has found a considerable increase of municipal debts in 2014. In 43 municipalities the debt increased by more than 50 per cent compared to 2013 and in 35 the increase was by more than 100 per cent.
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Court Orders Prosecution Service to Pay Financial Supervision Commission ex-Deputy Chief Rankova LV 48,000 in Compensati...
January 10 (BTA) - A court has ordered the prosecution service to pay the former deputy chief of the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC), Dimana Rankova, 48,000 leva in compensation for a probe against her, plus 6,400 leva in legal fees and interest, reports "Sega" and other m...
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Plovdiv Mayor Charged with Malfeasance in Office
January 10 (BTA) - The mayor of the second largest Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, Ivan Totev, has been charged with malfeasance in office, said the Sofia Prosecution Office Tuesday. Prosecutors believe that Totev's offence has caused the city purse detriment amounting to 1 million le...
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Navigation along Bulgarian-Romanian Stretch of Danube Banned Due to Ice Floe
January 10 (BTA) - Navigation along the Bulgarian-Romanian section of the Danube was banned as of noon on Tuesday, Head of the River Supervision Directorate Rousse with the Maritime Adminstration Ivan Zhekov said.
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Public Financial Inspection AgencyCompletes 176 Checks inThird Quarter of 2016
January 10 (BTA) - In the last quarter of 2016 inspectors of the Public Financial Inspection Agency (PFIA) carried out 176 financial checks, of which 80 following alerts, and 96 scheduled in the annual plan of PFIA.
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Poll: 26.1% Would Have Voted for GERB and 24.9% for Socialists in Hypothetical End-2016 Elections
January 10 (BTA) - Had elections been held at the very end of 2016, the ruling GERB party would have won 26.1 per cent of the votes and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) 24.9 per cent, according to a nationally representative poll by Exacta Research Group held among 1,000 adult...
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Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee to Consider Draft Resolution on November 6, 2016 National Referendum
January 9 (BTA) - At an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday, the National Assembly Legal Affairs Committee will consider a draft resolution in connection with the November 6, 2016 national referendum, Committee Chairman Danail Kirilov told a news conference on Monday.
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Socialists Allege Wrongdoings in Awarding Beach Operation Contracts
January 9 (BTA) - Socialist MP Atanas Zafirov on Monday accused the outgoing government of awarding lucrative beach operation contracts to companies linked to the power-holders. The idea is to use part of the proceeds for the purposes of the expected early parliamentary elections...
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Bulgarian Employers Posting Workers to EU, EEA Countries and Switzerland Must Comply with Minimum Work and Pay Requireme...
January 9 (BTA) - The General Labour Inspectorate (GLI) Executive Agency recalled in a press release on Monday that new rules apply in Bulgaria as from the beginning of 2017, intended to provide better protection of the labour rights of Bulgarian workers posted by a Bulgarian em...
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Poet and Playwright Stefan Tsanev Declines Culture Ministry's Highest Award
January 9 (BTA) - Prominent contemporary Bulgarian poet and playwright Stefan Tsanev has declined to receive the highest award of the Culture Ministry, the Golden Age, the writer himself said in a letter sent to outgoing Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov, which was made available ...
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