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Finance Ministry Reports Positive Consolidated Fiscal Programme Balance for January 2016
March 1 (BTA) - Based on the monthly data of first-level spending units, the Consolidated Fiscal Programme (CFP) balance on a cash basis as of end-January 2016 is positive, amounting to 991.6 million leva, or 1.1 per cent of the projected GDP, and is formed by a national budget s...
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Defence Council to Discuss Motion for Investment in New Military Aircraft Type
February 29 (BTA) - The Defence Council is to consider and adopt a motion for an investment in the acquisition of a new type of military aircraft for the Air Force on Tuesday, Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev said Monday. He was speaking at a news conference on topical issues for...
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Energy Minister Petkova Participates in Southern Gas Corridor Meeting in Baku
February 29 (BTA) - Addressing the second meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council in Baku on Monday, Azeri Energy Minister Natiq Aliyev called Bulgaria a catalyst for the Azeri natural gas to the European market. Aliyev thanked the Bulgarian government for the suppo...
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Ataka Wants Blockades of Bulgarian-Greek Border Referred to European Court of Justice
February 29 (BTA) - Meeting with President Rosen Plevneliev as part of his political consultations, Ataka MP Magdalena Tasheva said her party wants the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to be apprised of the blockades of the Bulgarian-Greek border by Greek farmers after the losses ...
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Energy Minister Petkova Participates in Southern Gas Corridor Meeting in Baku
February 29 (BTA) - Addressing the second meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council in Baku on Monday, Azeri Energy Minister Natiq Aliyev called Bulgaria a catalyst for the Azeri natural gas to the European market. Aliyev thanked the Bulgarian government for the suppo...
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Greek Farmers Withdraw Almost All Tractors from Kulata-Promachonas Border Checkpoint
February 29 (BTA) - Around noon on Monday, the protesting Greek farmers withdrew from the Kulata-Promachonas border checkpoint almost all tractors which had been blocking the traffic through the Bulgarian-Greek border for more than a month, Rossen Velev, regional representative ...
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Meeting with President Plevneliev, ABV Party Calls for Real Actions in Anti-Corruption Legislation
Sofia, February 29 (BTA) - President Rosen Plevneliev met with representatives of the ABV party on Monday, starting his annual initiative known as "a month of political consultations" to discuss the priorities of the current year with the parliamentary parties. Emerging from the ...
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Bulgaria, France Deepen Scientific Cooperation in Food Safety, Stock-Breeding
February 29 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Agriculture and Food Ministry and France's National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) will deepen their scientific cooperation in the sphere of food safety, it was agreed at a meeting between Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Tsvetan ...
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Parliament Chair Tsacheva: An Acceptable Concept of Punitive Criminal Policy Should Be Created
February 29 (BTA) - According to Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva, Bulgaria should draft a generally acceptable concept of punitive criminal justice and this should become the foundation for the drafting of a new Criminal Code. Tsacheva spoke Monday at a conference titled 'Pu...
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Greek Farmers Withdraw Almost All Tractors from Kulata-Promachonas Border Checkpoint
February 29 (BTA) - Around noon on Monday, the protesting Greek farmers withdrew from the Kulata-Promachonas border checkpoint almost all tractors which had been blocking the traffic through the Bulgarian-Greek border for more than a month, Rossen Velev, regional representative o...
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Trade Union Federation to Stage Indefinite Protest to Press Demand for Start of Genuine and Efficient Reforms at Interio...
February 29 (BTA) - The Trade Union Federation of the Employees in the Ministry of Interior will organize an indefinite protest to press demands for the start of genuine and efficient reforms at the Ministry, the Association's Governing Board Chairman Valentin Popov told a BTA-ho...
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Household Customers May Enter Free Market for Electricity on May 1, 2016
February 29 (BTA) - Household customers in Bulgaria will be able to enter the free market for electricity as from May 1, 2016, BTA learnt from Plamen Mladenovski, Head of the Price Regulation and Licences: Electricity Networks, Trading and Markets Department of the Energy and Wat...
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National Customs Agency Director Vanyo Tanov Dies
February 29 (BTA) - National Customs Agency Director Vanyo Tanov passed away on Monday morning, the Ministry of Finance confirmed to BTA. Born in Montana (Northwestern Bulgaria) on September 22, 1958, Tanov previously served as Director of the Rousse Regional Directorate of th...
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Armed Men Steal Lv 6,000 from Supermarket Chain Store in Sofia
February 28 (BTA) - Nearly 6,000 leva were stolen in an armed robbery at a supermarket chain store near Sofia's ring road at 10 pm on Saturday. Four masked men fired shots at the store's service entrance. In the room there were three women. Staff in the store area remained una...
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Prime Minister Borissov Urges Parliament to Reconsider Decision to Establish Ad Hoc Inquiry Committee for Checking Claim...
February 27 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov asked GERB floor leader and Deputy Chair Tsvetan Tsvetanov to use all diplomatic mechanisms in Parliament and to assess the need for the creation of an ad hoc inquiry committee for investigating claims of Turkish and Russian Inter...
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MRF Is Exhausted as a Model, Lyutvi Mestan Tells Initiative Committee for Establishing His New DOST Party
February 27 (BTA) - The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) is exhausted as a model and the countdown is starting for this party, said MRF former leader Lyutvi Mestan on Saturday, speaking to the Initiative Committee for the establishment of his new party Democrats for Respons...
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PM Borissov Says If Blockade on Greek Border Is not Over in Two Days He Will not Attend EU-Turkey Meeting
February 27 (BTA) - Speaking here on Saturday during a GERB youth conference, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that if the blockade on the Bulgarian-Greek border is not over in two days, he will consider it as directed against Bulgaria. "I will use my right of veto and will not...
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European Commission: "Unstable Legal Framework, Low Trust in Judicial System Hinder Private Investment in Bulgaria"
February 26 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - "Challenges persist regarding the business environment. An unstable legal framework and low trust in the judicial system hinder private investment," the European Commission writes in a report assessing Bulgaria's economy in the ...
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Sofia Responds to Moscow's Reaction to Formation of Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee of Inquiry into Russia's Alleged Inte...
February 26 (BTA) - In connection with a statement made at a Thursday briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, reacting to the formation at the National Assembly of an Ad Hoc Committee of Inquiry into Russia's and Turkey's alleged interference into Bulga...
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State Has Withdrawn BGN 1,675 Mln to Pay Guaranteed Deposits in Corpbank - Minister
February 26 (BTA) - The state has withdrawn 1,675 million leva to pay the guaranteed deposits in Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) through the Bulgarian Deposit Insurance Fund (BDIF), Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said during Question Time in Parliament on Friday.