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Electronic Voting More Secure Than Conventional Voting - Discussion in Parliament
March 22 (BTA) - Remote electronic voting is more secure than conventional voting with ballot papers, according to MPs and participants in a discussion in Parliament on Tuesday. The roundtable was organized by Reformist Bloc MPs Martin Dimitrov and Peter Slavov. The participan...
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Bulgarian Leaders Strongly Condemn Brussels Terror Attacks
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and Prime Minister Boyko Borissov strongly condemned Tuesday's terrorist attacks at Brussels Zaventem Airport and in the city's Metro system which killed 13 people and injured dozens of others. In a message to King Philippe of Belgium, Plev...
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Trading in Long-Term Contracts via Energy Exchange to Begin July 1
March 22 (BTA) - The Independent Bulgarian Energy Exchange (IBEX) will buy a platform for trading in long-term contracts, Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova said on Tuesday, addressing a conference on the liberalization of the national electricity market and the new trends in th...
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Bulgaria Wins Four Titles at 13th World Muay Thai Amateur and Pro-Am Championships
March 22 (BTA) - Bulgaria won 10 medals, including four golds, at the 13th World Muay Thai Amateur and Pro-Am Championships in Bangkok. Some 450 entrants from 54 countries took part in the men's, women's, girls' and boys' divisions of the event. Bulgaria was represented by 14 ...
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PM Borissov: Government Earned 3 Billion Leva More in Revenues in 2015
March 22 (BTA) - "Thanks to the good work of the government, the services, agencies and all institutions involved, we had 3 billion leva more in revenues and aid in 2015," Prime Minister Boyko Borissov wrote on his Facebook page. Borissov gave charts showing that the government e...
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Government Puts up for Public Discussion Revisions to Foreigners Act
March 22 (BTA) - The government has put up for public discussion revisions to the Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act which will tighten the rules for granting long-term Bulgarian visas and will introduce the status of "stateless person". The bill can be viewed in the g...
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Visiting Vatican's Secretary of State Parolin Holds Meetings with Bulgarian Officials
March 21 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Monday conferred with the Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is paying a visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of the Government and the Catholic Church in Bulgaria. "We value highly the relations with the Holy ...
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Prime Minister Borissov Confers with Vatican's Secretary of State Parolin
March 21 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Monday conferred with the Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is paying a visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of the Government and the Catholic Church in Bulgaria. "We value highly the relations with the Holy ...
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Visiting Romania, Bulgarian Defence Minister, Host Agree on Invigorated Cooperation in Black Sea Region
March 21 (BTA) - Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev, who is paying a two-day official visit to Romania, conferred here on Monday with Romanian National Defence Minister Mihnea Motoc, Nenchev's Ministry said in a press release. "The talks between the two ministers evide...
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National Assembly Chair Presents Mechanism for Cooperation between SEE Countries, EP in Brussels
March 21 (BTA) - National Assembly Chair Tsetska Tsacheva, acting in her capacity as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), presented in Brussels on Monday the Bulgarian initiative for a permanent cooperation mechanism betw...
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Budget for Bulgarian UN Secretary-General Candidate's Election Campaign Amounts to 106,000 Lv
March 21 (BTA) - A budget of 106,000 leva is planned for the election campaign of Irina Bokova, Bulgaria's nominee for UN Secretary-General, said the operational working group coordinating the work on her nomination. The team was presented at the Foreign Ministry on Monday.
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Prosecutor General Demands Socialist MP to Be Stripped of Immunity
March 21 (BTA) - Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov has demanded that Svetla Buchvarova-Piralkova MP of BSP-Left Bulgaria be stripped of her immunity, the prosecuting magistracy said Monday. As part of pretrial proceedings the Sofia City Prosecution Office has gathered evidenc...
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Independent MP Kadiev Heads Steering Committee for Creating New Party
March 20 (BTA) - Independent MP Georgi Kadiev was elected Sunday to head a steering committee for the establishment of the Normal State political party. Addressing the founders of the steering committee at a forum at Sofia's National Palace of Culture, Kadiev said that the new pa...
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ABV Party Proposes Reconsideration of Political Declaration in Government's Support
March 20 (BTA) - The ABV party proposes that the political declaration in support of the Government be reconsidered, ABV member and Labour and Social Policy Minister Ivailo Kalfin said here Sunday. He took part in a debate on "The President: Guarantee or Risk for the National Sec...
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Vatican's Secretary of State Parolin Consecrates Catholic Church in Sofia, Meets with Parliament Chair
March 20 (BTA) - The Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is paying a visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of the Government and the Catholic Church in Bulgaria, consecrated the Assumption of the Virgin Mary church of the Catholic Apostolic Exarchate in Sofia...
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Bulgarian National Injured in Bus Crash in Spain
March 20 (BTA) - No Bulgarian nationals were killed in Sunday's bus crash in Northern Spain, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry's press centre told BTA. However, a 21-year-old woman from Bourgas (on the Black Sea) was injured in the accident. She is in a hospital but out of risk. The...
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Bulgaria Participates in 11th Intourmarket Travel Fair in Moscow
March 19 (BTA) - Bulgaria has taken centre stage at the Intourmarket International Travel Fair in Moscow, which opened on March 19 and will be on until March 22. Bulgaria's stand was the first one visited by Oleg Safonov, head of the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism. He met wit...
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MRF's Yordan Tsonev: DSB Perceive Reforms as Consumption of Power
March 19 (BTA) - Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) perceive reforms in the country only as consumption of power, said MP Yordan Tsonev of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) in Varna on Saturday. He said that the shocks in the ruling coalition confirm MRF's opinion that ...
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Fifteen Iraqi Migrants Detained near Haskovo
March 19 (BTA) - Fifteen Iraqi nationals were detained during a police operation in the southern town Haskovo on Saturday. Five of them were children. The migrants were found in an outbuilding at a dam near the village of Kirovo pole, accompanied by a 25-year old local man. Tw...
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Bulgaria Condemns Istanbul's Suicide Bomb Attack
March 19 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has sent condolences to his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu over Saturday's suicide bomb attack in central Istanbul. The Prime Minister conveyed condolences to the families of the victims and wished speedy recovery to the woun...