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Central Bank Governor: Bulgarian Banking System Stable
August 11 (BTA) - Bulgaria's banking system is stable, reads a statement by the Bulgarian National Bank's (BNB) Governor Dimitar Radev, issued on the occasion of the recently concluded asset quality review and stress test of the banks in Bulgaria. BNB's Governing Council adopted...
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State Waives 221 Citizens' DebtWorth 472,533 Leva Since 2012
August 11 (BTA) - A total of 39 decrees have been issued since May of 2012, waiving 221 citizens' debt to the State worth 472,533.65 leva, said here Thursday the Chairman of the Commission on Waiver of Uncollectible Debts to the State, Plamen Konov, reporting on the Commission's ...
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Bulgarian Interior Ministry Denies Having Violated the Law upon Abdullah Buyuk's Handover to Turkish Authorities
August 11 (BTA) - Bulgarian Interior Ministry Deputy Chief Secretary Georgi Arabadjiev Thursday dismissed allegations that his Ministry had violated the law when it handed over Abdullah Buyuk to the Turkish authorities.
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Illegal Migrants Detained at Bulgaria's Borders with Serbia and Turkey
August 11 (BTA) - Officers of the Bregovo Border Police Department detained 40 aliens near Bulgaria's border with Serbia on August 10. Thirty of them said they are from Afghanistan, seven from Pakistan and three from Nepal, the Chief Directorate of Border Police said on Thursday.
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Varna Airport Expects 20% Increase in Number of Passengers in 2016
August 11 (BTA) - Varna Airport expects a 20 per cent increase in the number of passengers serviced in 2016, which is the best result of this airport in the last ten years, said Ulrich Heppe, CEO of Twin Star Airport Management AD which operates the Bulgarian seaside airports in ...
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Bulgaria Hands over to Turkey Person Suspected of Ties with Fethullah Gulen's Organisation
August 10 (BTA) - Turkish national Abdullah Buyuk, suspected of ties with Fethullah Gulen's organisation FETO, has been coercively taken to the border and handed over to Turkey for exceeding his authorized stay in the country, the Interior Ministry confirmed for BTA on Wednesday....
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Suspect Detained in Bulgaria for Links to Islamic State Consents to Be Extradited to France
August 10 (BTA) - Mourad Hamyd, who is held in Bulgaria on suspicions of involvement in a terrorist group, declared his consent to be extradited to France at a hearing of his case by the Sofia City Court on Wednesday.
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BSP and ABV Come Close to Agreeing on Maj. Gen. Rumen Radev as Single Left-Wing Candidate for President
August 10 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the ABV party have come close to agreeing on Maj. Gen. Rumen Radev as a single left-wing candidate for president of Bulgaria, BSP Chair Kornelia Ninova told journalists on Wednesday, emerging from a meeting between ...
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EU to Finance Constriction of 140 Km Power Line in Bulgaria
August 10 (BTA) - The European Commission announced Wednesday that it has allocated 29.9 million euro to the construction of a new 140 km electricity line between Dobrudja in northeastern Bulgaria and Burgas on the southern Black Sea coast. "The Commission considers energy in...
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Socialists Broaden Scope of Motion for Extraordinary Sitting of Parliament to Add Scrapping of Russia Sanctions and Trav...
August 10 (BTA) - A day after they said they want Parliament to hold an extraordinary meeting to lift a moratorium on the Belene N-plant construction project, the group of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) - Left Bulgaria submitted Wednesday a broadened motion that also pr...
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EC Approves ordinance on Reducing Burden for Large Industrial Consumers of Green Energy
August 10 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Energy Ministry said that it has obtained the approval of the European Commission for proposed measures to reduce the costs large industrial consumers incur as a result of using green energy.
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Energy Ministry Invites Rosatom Experts to Set Up Working Group on Belene Project
August 9 (BTA) - Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova has sent a letter to Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Director General Sergey Kiriyenko to select the members of a working group on the Belene N-plant project. The Bulgarian delegation will include the executive dir...
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Renowned Bulgarian Comedian Nikola Anastassov Dies at 84
August 9 (BTA) - Popular Bulgarian actor Nikola Anastassov died on the night of Monday to Tuesday at 84, his son Chavdar Anastassov told BTA. He belonged to the Golden Generation of the State Theatre of Satire, along with Stoyanka Moutafova and Tatyana Lolova, as well as the l...
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More than 2,300 Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Transited Bulgaria since January 2016
August 9 (BTA) - According to last week's data, there are some 150 unaccompanied refugee minors in Bulgaria, National Ombudsman Maya Manolova said during a discussion on the subject. More than 2,300 unaccompanied minors have transited this country since the beginning of 2016.
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Court to Hear Extradition Case of "Charlie Hebdo" Attacker's Brother-in-Law on August 10
August 8 (BTA) - The Sofia City Court will hold a hearing on a European Arrest Warrant for Mourad Hamyd at 2:30 p.m. on August 10, the prosecution service said on Monday. Hamyd, 20, brother-in-law of "Charlie Hebdo" attacker Cherif Kouachi, was detained in Sofia on July 29. He...
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Prosecution Requests Extradition of Turkish National Involved in Traffic Incident
August 8 (BTA) - The Sofia City Prosecution Office has requested from Turkey to extradite Turkish national Faruk Bektas. The prosecution service issued a European Arrest Warrant on Bektas, who caused the death of a couple in a traffic accident on July 24.
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Bulgarian Leaders Condole with Macedonian Counterparts over Flood Victims
August 8 (BTA) - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and Prime Minister Boyko Borissov have sent condolences to their Macedonian counterparts over the heavy floods that hit the country taking dozens of lives.
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Serbia Offers Bulgaria Help for Border Protection
August 7 (BTA) - "We intend to help our Bulgarian colleagues by sending Serbian forces to the critical points on Bulgaria's southern border, which will ease our own situation," Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic told journalists at the border between the two countries o...
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Interior Minister Buchvarova Confirms that "Charlie Hebdo" Attacker's Brother-in-Law Is in Bulgaria
August 7 (BTA) - Bulgarian Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova Sunday confirmed that Mourad Hamyd, brother-in-law of "Charlie Hebdo" attacker Cherif Kouachi, is in Bulgaria. Buchvarova said that a European Arrest Warrant for Hamyd has been issued.
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Prime Minister Borissov Opens New Coast Line Monitoring Centre at Varna's Naval Academy
August 6 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov opened here on Saturday a new centre for coast line monitoring and integrated management at Varna's Naval Academy. The project is valued at close to 1.2 million euro and was implemented in partnership with the Black Sea Basin Directo...
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