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ABV Insists That Government Does Not Support Provisional Application CETA
July 28 (BTA) - ABV insists that the Government does not support the provisional application of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), ABV's Deputy Chair Ivailo Kalfin said. The party has even submitted a draft decision on the issue to the National Assem...
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Armed Forces Given Police Powers during Counterterrorism Operations
July 28 (BTA) - The Armed Forces will have police powers when they participate in counterterrorism operations under a new counterterrorism bill proposed by the government and supported by Parliament on principle on Thursday. The bill also allows curtailing some civil rights and l...
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Finance Minister: Budget Will Strike Balance between Physical and Social Security
July 28 (BTA) - A balance will be sought between physical and social security at the drafting of the budget for 2017, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said at roundtable talks on social services, organized by the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB).
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Council of Muslim Spiritual Leaders Says Some Legislative Revisions Restrict Muslim Rights
July 28 (BTA) - The members of the Muslim Council of Spiritual Leaders expressed on Thursday their concern in relation to the bill providing for limiting and forbidding Muslim clothing, as well as in respect to the draft revisions to the Religious Denominations Act and the Crimin...
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National Ombudsman Looks Back on First Year in Office
July 28 (BTA) - Looking back on her first year in office Thursday, National Ombudsman Maya Manolova said she has provided assistance to over 20,000 people and has talked personally with over 1,000 members of the public.
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Financial Supervision Commission Leader Elected Despite Procedural Objections
July 28 (BTA) - The National Assembly on Thursday elected Karina Karaivanova-Ganozova to chair the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) despite procedural objections raised by the left wing. She was proposed for the job by the ruling GERB party and there were no other candidate...
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Judicial System Act Revisions Pass on Second Reading
July 27 (BTA) - The National Assembly passed amendments to the Judicial System Act on second reading Wednesday. The revisions were proposed by the government and were adopted despite the strong opposition of magistrates' associations.
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Three Syrian Nationals Charged with Terrorism in Bulgaria
July 27 (BTA) - The specialized prosecuting magistracy has submitted a terrorism indictment against three nationals of Syria to the specialized criminal court, sources from the magistracy said on Wednesday. The charges against Almohammad Abdulhamid, Al Abdallah Fadi and Al Fa...
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Government Endorses Decision to Move Half-Year Forward Bulgarian Presidency of EU
July 27 (BTA) - The Bulgarian government Wednesday approved a revised order in which the member states will hold the presidency of the Council of the EU until 2030 and endorsed a decision to move a half-year forward the Bulgarian Presidency. It means that the Bulgarian preside...
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Audit Finds Slack Control of Chelopech Gold Mine Concession
July 27 (BTA) - The National Audit Office announced Wednesday the conclusions of an audit at the Chelopech ore and copper mine, which has found slack control over the concession owned by the mine operator, Dundee Precious Metals Chelopech. The audit covers the period from 2011 to...
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Bulgarian Energy Holding Reports Successful Sale of EUR 550 Mln Bond Issue
July 27 (BTA) - The state-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) announced successful raising of a loan through sale of a 550 million euro bond issue on the Irish Stock Exchange Tuesday. During the past week BEH officials held a number of meetings with investors in London, Paris...
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Analysts See Likelihiood of Fast but Unsustainable Economic Growth in Bulgaria
July 26 (BTA) - There is a trend for fast but unsustainable economic growth in Bulgaria, according to the analysts of Elana Trading. Their analysis on the national economy in the second half of 2016 says that the global situation puts hurdles for the Bulgarian economy.
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Herb Growing Offers Bulgarian Rural Communities an Opportunity for Sustainable Business and Development
July 27 (BTA) - Bulgaria loses profit by doing little other than drying of the herbs it grows, harvests and exports, the Information and Environmental Protection (IEP) organization tod BTA. Over 85 per cent of the medicinal plants are not put to any processing other than drying b...
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Defence Ministry Elaborates on Claims Concerning Russian Aircraft Flying over Black Sea
July 26 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Defence Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that it has not accused Russia of violating Bulgarian airspace, but has referred to flights by Russian aircraft which had not kept their transponders on and had not announced their flight plans in advance ...
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National Ombudsman Manolova Petitions Constitutional Court about Sanction for Non-voting Bulgarians
July 26 (BTA) - Speaking at a news conference here on Tuesday, National Ombudsman Maya Manolova said she has petitioned the Constitutional Court about Article 242a of the Election Code, which sanctions Bulgarian citizens who have not voted by removing them from voters lists.
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Parliament Passes Judicial System Act Amendments on Second Reading
July 26 (BTA) - Passing second-reading amendments to the Judicial System Act, Bulgaria's Parliament Tuesday resolved that the Inspectorate with the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) will perform integrity and conflict of interest checks of judges, prosecutors and investigating offic...
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Bulgarian, Greek Defence Ministers Discuss EU External Border Security, Defence Cooperation
July 26 (BTA) - After meeting with his Greek counterpart on Tuesday, Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev told a joint news conference that Panos Kammenos voiced a readiness to back a possible request from Sofia for stronger NATO presence in the Black Sea which could stop a...
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ABV Proposes Georgi Purvanov and Ivailo Kalfin for President of Bulgaria
July 26 (BTA) - The ABV party said on Tuesday it is proposing its Chairman Georgi Purvanov and Deputy Chairman Ivailo Kalfin as potential candidates for president of Bulgaria that could be nominated by a broad centre-left coalition. The news was reported by the ABV press office a...
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Sofia Airport Posts 14% Increase in Passengers in January-June
July 26 (BTA) - Sofia Airport handled 2,174,335 passengers in the first half of the year, 260,980 (14 per cent) more than a year earlier, according to the Airport's June and first-half statistics. Terminal 1 handled 41 per cent of all passengers, and the rest went through Term...
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GERB to Run in Presidential Elections on Its Own
July 26 (BTA) - GERB will run in the presidential elections on its own because it is a responsible party, Floor Leader Tsvetan Tsvetanov told journalists in Pleven on Monday. Tsvetanov, who is also the party's deputy leader, said: "GERB has always stood up for the Euro-Atlanti...
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