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Prime Minister Borissov Holds Telephone Conversation with Turkish Counterpart Yildirim
July 9 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Friday held a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim, Cabinet's Press Service reported.
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President Plevneliev: Bulgaria Is Well Aware of Risks Stemming from Disrupted Balance in Black Sea Region
July 9 (BTA Special Correspondent Assen Boyadzhiev) - Bulgaria is very well aware of the risks that stem from the disrupted balance in the Black Sea, said here on Saturday President Rosen Plevneliev, who is in the Polish capital to attend the Summit Meeting of NATO Heads of State...
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57% of Bulgarians Would Vote for Their Country to Remain in EU
July 8 (BTA) - Some 57 per cent of Bulgarians would vote for their country to remain in the EU in a referendum like the Brexit vote in the UK. Another 24 per cent would vote for leaving, and the remaining 19 per cent do not know how they would vote, shows a poll conducted by the ...
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Sofia Appellate Court Acquits Former Parliament Deputy Chair Hristo Bisserov of Tax Evasion and Other Charges
July 8 (BTA) - The Sofia Appellate Court (SApC) has confirmed the acquittal of former Parliament deputy chair Hristo Bisserov, SApC reported on Friday.
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Parliament Adopts Concessions Bill on First Reading
July 8 (BTA) - Parliament adopted on first reading Friday a Concessions Bill with 75 votes in favour, 38 against and 27 abstentions. The Bill proposes two main forms of concessions, the first being a public-private partnership, in which the public partner (the public body) awards...
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Sixty-six Per Cent of All State-owned Fixed Assets Privatized - Deputy Prime Minister
July 8 (BTA) - Sixty-six per cent of all state-owned fixed assets have been privatized to date. The industrial fixed assets are almost 100 per cent privatized, Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev said during Question Time in Parliament Friday.
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Interior Minister Buchvarova: Burden of Strong Migration Pressure Should Not Fall on Frontline States Only
July 8 (BTA) - The Ministers of Interior of the 28 EU Member States debated on the future of the Common European Asylum System at an informal meeting here on Thursday. Addressing the participants, Bulgarian Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova said, as quoted by her ministry, th...
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Sofia City Court Refuses DOST Party Registration on Grounds of Ethnically Identified Abbreviation
July 8 (BTA) - On grounds that Democrats for Responsibility, Freedom and Tolerance (DOST) use an abbreviation consciously sought to sound like "friend" in Turkish, the Sofia City Court refused to register the newly established part of former Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF)...
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Bulgaria, Russia Sign Protocol of Cooperation in Agriculture
July 7 (BTA) - Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Tsvetan Dimitrov and his Russian counterpart Sergey Levin have signed a protocol from the first sitting of the Bulgarian-Russian working group for cooperation in agriculture, which took place at the Black Sea resort of St. Vlas,...
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Israeli President Rivlin Pays Official Visit to Bulgaria
July 7 (BTA) - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who is paying an official visit to Bulgaria, took part in a joint news conference with Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev here on Thursday after a one-to-one session between the two heads of State.
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Draft Technical Specification for Web-Based E-Procurement Platform Submitted to Public Consultation
July 7 (BTA) - The Public Procurement Agency has published for public consultation a draft Technical Specification for the creation of a single national electronic web-based public procurement platform, called E-Procurement Centralized Automated Information System (EPCAIS), the F...
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National Audit Office Report: Bulgaria Remains Most Poorly Performing State in Implementation of Horizon 2020 Programme
July 7 (BTA) - The Bulgarian National Audit Office (BNAO) has carried out an audit of the implementation of Horizon 2020 - the 8th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, the BNAO said in a press release Thursday. The audit was carried out in cooperation with the Euro...
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Socialists Urge Audit Office to Check Sofia Airport
July 7 (BTA) - The parliamentary group of BSP-Left Bulgaria said on Thursday they will urge the National Assembly to require the National Audit Office to check Sofia Airport, whose profits and cost-effectiveness are seen as suspiciously low.
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President Plevneliev to Take Part in NATO's Warsaw Summit
July 7 (BTA) - President Rosen Plevneliev will lead the Bulgarian delegation to the Summit Meeting of NATO Heads of State and Government which will be held in Warsaw between July 8 and 9, the President's Press Secretariat said on Thursday.
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Prosecutor General Wants Alexander Metodiev MP Stripped of Immunity
July 7 (BTA) - Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov has asked the National Assembly to strip Alexander Metodiev MP (Movement for Rights and Freedoms) of his immunity so he can be prosecuted for breaching traffic rules and threatening to "fire" police officers who had stopped a van ...
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200 Kg of Heroin Seized at Bulgarian-Turkish Border
July 6 (BTA) - Bulgarian customs officers seized 200 kg of heroin worth more than 18 million leva (9 million euro) at the Lessovo checkpoint on the border with Turkey, Roumyana Arnaoudova, Spokesperson for Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov, told a news briefing at the checkpoin...
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There Is Untapped Potential for Development of Bulgarian-Swiss Economic Relations
July 6 (BTA) - Bulgarian-Swiss economic relations are at a good level and there is a potential for their further development. This opinion was shared by Bulgarian National Assembly Chairperson Tsetska Tsacheva and Swiss National Council President Christa Markwalder in a joint sta...
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Supreme Court Leaves without Consideration Corpbank Shareholders', Directors' Appeals against Bank's Initial Date of Ins...
July 6 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) Wednesday left without consideration appeals lodged by Bromak EOOD, Bulgarian Acquisition Co. S.a.r.l. and the Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) executive directors against a Sofia City Court judgment declaring the ban...
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EU Emissions Trading System Does Not Lead to Cleaner Air in Bulgaria
July 6 (BTA) - The EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) does not fulfil one of its additional functions in Bulgaria - to engender cleaner air, WWF Bulgaria said in a statement about the effectiveness of the system on the national level.
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Finance Minister Meets with Members of FSAP Preliminary Mission
July 6 (BTA) - A preliminary mission for an update of Bulgaria's Financial Sector Assessment Programme (FSAP) due in 2017 started on Tuesday, the Finance Ministry said in a press release.