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Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto Sees no Obstacle for Bulgaria to Join Schengen Area
January 21 (BTA) - Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said here on Thursday that he does not see any obstacles for the European institutions to initiate Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen Area, adding that this country has achieved a lot in this reg...
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Parliament Supports Electronic Voting
January 21 (BTA) - The National Assembly adopted a decision, whereby it supported the possibility for electronic voting during elections and referendums given there are legal guarantees for secrecy of the vote, civic control of the election process and security of the information...
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President Plevneliev: Disregard of the Will of the People Can Lead to a Decline of Statehood Itself
January 21 (BTA) - Giving up the modern ways of voting and disregard of the will of the people can not only lead to apathy and degradation of democratic values, but also to a decline of statehood itself, President Rosen Plevneliev said. He was speaking at a news conference Thursd...
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Socialists Agree with MRF that No-Confidence Motion Will Be Themed around Healthcare
January 21 (BTA) - The parliamentary groups of BSP-Left Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) agreed on Thursday that the planned no-confidence motion against the government will be themed around healthcare. BSP Chairman Mihail Mikov said the motion will not ...
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Lozan Panov Walks Out of Supreme Judicial Council Meeting
January 21 (BTA) - Supreme Cassation Court (SCC) President Lozan Panov walked out of a Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) meeting on Thursday, saying he will only come back if the SJC's new representative member, Dimiter Ouzounov, provides his phone records. Panov's demand was occasi...
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Supreme Judicial Council Replaces Its Representative
January 20 (BTA) - Thirteen of the 25 members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) voted to discontinue the term of its representative member, Sonya Naydenova, and replaced her with Dimiter Ouzounov. The motion for Naydenova's replacement was surprisingly submitted to the SCJ by...
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President Plevneliev Talks Over the Phone with Iranian Counterpart
January 20 (BTA) - President Rosen Plevneliev congratulated Iranian President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani in connection with the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the nuclear program of Iran, announced on January 16, 2016, Plevneliev's Press Secretariat said....
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Supreme Judicial Council Replaces Its Representative
January 20 (BTA) - Thirteen of the 25 members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) voted to discontinue the term of its representative member, Sonya Naydenova, and replaced her with Dimiter Ouzounov. The motion for Naydenova's replacement was surprisingly submitted to the SCJ by...
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GERB, Reformist Bloc Start Talks on Coalition Agreement Annex
January 20 (BTA) - Working groups of the two partners in the government coalition, GERB and the Reformist Bloc (RB), started talks Wednesday on an annex to their coalition agreement. The two sides hope that more details will be clear over the next 10-15 days so that an agreement ...
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Bulgaria Not Notified of South Stream Project Termination
January 20 (BTA) - Bulgaria has not been officially notified that the South Stream gas pipeline project has been terminated, the Energy Ministry in Sofia said on Wednesday, reacting to a report by Russia's TASS news agency that the agreement on the South Stream project has been d...
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Supreme Judicial Council Replaces Its Representative
January 20 (BTA) - Thirteen of the 25 members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) voted to discontinue the term of its representative member, Sonya Naydenova, and replaced her with Dimiter Ouzounov. The motion for Naydenova's replacement was surprisingly submitted to the SCJ by...
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Bulgaria Not Notified of South Stream Project Termination
January 20 (BTA) - Bulgaria has not been officially notified that the South Stream gas pipeline project has been terminated, the Energy Ministry in Sofia said on Wednesday, reacting to a report by Russia's TASS news agency that the agreement on the South Stream project has been d...
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2016 Employment Action Plan to Provide Jobs to 21,400 People
January 20 (BTA) - The Council of Ministers adopted the 2016 National Employment Action Plan, the Cabinet's Press Service reported on Wednesday. The plan will be financed with money from an approved 73 million leva package for active labour market policies. It will provide jobs t...
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Record-low Temperatures Measured in Northern Bulgaria
January 20 (BTA) - Record-low temperatures were recorded in places in Northern Bulgaria on Wednesday morning, Records of the Meteorological Observatory in Silistra from 8 am showed minus 19C in Glavinitsa and minus 16.4C in Alfatar. Previously, the lowest temperatures for Janu...
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US Assistant Secretary of State Nuland Visits Bulgaria
January 19 (BTA) - The strategic partnership between Bulgaria and the United States of America is of exceptional importance not only for this country, but for the region as well, said here on Tuesday President Rosen Plevneliev, who received US Assistant Secretary of State for Eur...
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Average Price of 44.06 Leva/MGh Reached on Day One of IBEX Day-ahead Market
January 19 (BTA) - The Independent Bulgarian Energy Exchange (IBEX) reported an average price of 44.06 leva/MWh on January 19 when the day-ahead market for electricity officially went into operation. A total of 4,369.2 MWh of electricity was traded in the range of 44.03 leva/MWh ...
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Legal Affairs Committee Calls on MPs to Support Electronic Voting
January 19 (BTA) - The parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee adopted a draft resolution inviting Parliament to support the option of remote electronic voting. On Tuesday the committee discussed the outcome of the October 25, 2015 referendum about the introduction of remote electr...
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Prime Minister Borissov Confers with US Assistant Secretary of State Nuland
January 19 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Tuesday conferred with US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, who is on a working visit to Bulgaria, the Government Information Service said. Borissov and Nuland described as a success...
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Commissioner Hahn: Refugee Crisis Remains Biggest Challenge for EU
January 19 (BTA) - At present, the refugee crisis remains the biggest challenge for the EU, EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said during the Tenth Annual Government Meets the Business conference in Sofia. Over 60 mil...
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EC Provides EUR 850,000 in Funding for Bulgarian Gas Network Study
January 19 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The Bulgartransgaz company will receive 850,000 euro in funding from the European Commission to study the possibilities of upgrading, expanding and servicing the Bulgarian gas transmission network. The study is expected to outlin...
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