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Bulgarian Politicians Attend Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum in Washington
October 28 (BTA) - Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Floor Leader of Bulgaria's ruling GERB party, is paying a three-day visit to Washington at the invitation of the US Congress, GERB said in a press release on Wednesday. Tsvetanov is attending a Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum whi...
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Parliament Sets up Committee of Inquiry to Decide on Immunity of Ataka Leader Siderov
October 28 (BTA) - Parliament established an ad hoc committee to decide whether to grant the request of the Prosecutor General for starting criminal prosecution against Ataka leader and MP Volev Siderov and fellow party member and deputy Dessislav Choukolov and remanding them in ...
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Run-Off Elections to be Conducted in 1,128 Communities
October 28 (BTA) - Run-off elections will be conducted in 1,128 communities after last Sunday's first round of voting in the Bulgarian local elections, Central Election Commission Spokesman Tsvetozar Tomov said on Wednesday. These include 133 municipalities, 970 mayoralties, a...
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Supervisory Board of National Health Insurance Fund Protests Next Year's Budget for Health Care
October 27 (BTA) - The Supervisory Board of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is opposed to the draft budget for health care in 2016 because it does not include outlays to cover the deficit for this year, Stanimir Hassurdjiev of the Supervisory Board told the press Tuesda...
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Five Magistrate Organizations Disagree with Proposed Change in Order of Determining Their Salaries
October 27 (BTA) - Five organizations of magistrates in Bulgaria have sent a letter to the Prime Minister, the National Assembly Chair, the Finance Minister and the Justice Minister. The letter, received by BTA on Tuesday, reads that they firmly disagree with the proposed change ...
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Mayors in Half of Sofia Region's Municipalities Elected in First Round of Local Elections
October 27 (BTA) - The mayors in 11 of a total of 22 municipalities in Sofia region have already been elected in Sunday's local elections. Run-off elections will be held in the rest, the results published on the Central Election Commission (CEC) site show.
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14.7% of Bulgarian Armed Forces Personnel is Female - Defence Minister
October 27 (BTA) - At present, 14.7 per cent of the personnel of the Bulgarian armed forces is female, Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev said here on Tuesday. He took part in an international conference "Women, Peace and Security" organized by the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria...
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Finance Minister Goranov: Oman Fund's Claim against Bulgaria over Corpbank Is Unfounded
October 27 (BTA) - The claim of Oman's State General Reserve Fund, as a shareholder in the failed Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank), against the Bulgarian State is unfounded, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov told journalists here on Tuesday. "We have hired lawyers to de...
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Teachers' Wages Increased by 70 Leva
October 27 (BTA) - Trade unions reached agreement with Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov that teachers' monthly wages will be increased by 70 leva as of October 1, Bulgarian Teachers' Trade Union President Yanka Takeva said on Tuesday. The meeting was also attended by Prime ...
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2015 Budget to be Updated to Provide More Money for Various Ministries
October 27 (BTA) - Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said Tuesday that the 2015 budget will be updated to provide more money to various ministries, including those of the interior and of defence. "I did my best to push for reforms in the ministries of the interior and of defence...
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14.7% of Bulgarian Armed Forces Personnel is Female - Defence Minister
October 27 (BTA) - At present, 14.7 per cent of the personnel of the Bulgarian armed forces is female, Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev said here on Tuesday. He took part in an international conference "Women, Peace and Security" organized by the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria and the...
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Bulgarian Pavilion Opens in Hangzhou Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zone
October 27 (BTA) - A Bulgarian pavilion has been opened in the Hangzhou Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zone in China, the Agriculture and Food Ministry said in a press release on Tuesday.
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End-August Gross External Debt at 82.2% of GDP
October 26 (BTA) - Bulgaria's gross external debt was 35,390,700,000 euro (82.2 per cent of GDP) as at August 31, 2015, decreasing by 3,965,700,000 euro (10.1 per cent) compared with December 31, 2014 (when it accounted for 92.1 per cent of GDP) and decreasing by 3,174,700,000 eu...
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GERB Proposes Constitutional Changes to Remove Parliamentary Immunity of MPs for Indictable Offences
October 25 (BTA) - GERB starts consultations with the other parliamentary parties on constitutional changes that will remove the parliamentary immunity of MPs for indictable offences, National Assembly Chair Tsetska Tsacheva told a news briefing on Monday. She said the legisl...
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2016 Budget: Expectations for 2.1% Growth and Continued Fiscal Consolidation
(BTA) - The Finance Ministry published Monday the draft of the 2016 national budget and an update of its medium-term budget forecast for the 2016-2018 period which constitutes the reasoning for the budget bill.
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Prosecutor General Requests Parliament's Clearance to Arrest and Criminally Prosecute Ataka Leader
October 26 (BTA) - Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov submitted Monday morning a motion for authorization by the National Assembly to start criminal prosecution against MP Volen Siderov and party fellow Dessislav Choukolov and to arrest them for hooliganism and coercion, th...
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Election Commission Results Show GERB Mayoral Candidate Achieves Landslide Victory in Sofia
October 26 (BTA) - GERB's mayoral candidate and incumbent Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova won 57.12 per cent of the vote in Sunday's local elections, the Central Election Commission said Monday morning. These initial results are based on 4.95 per cent of the protocols of t...
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Bulgaria's Political Landscape Unchanged after Local Elections
Exit polls after Sunday's local elections show that the parties of Bulgaria's ruling coalition keep their political positions. GERB remains the largest political force, winning the mayorships in several key cities outright, including Sofia, Bourgas and Varna, even in the firs...
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PM Borissov: "Bulgaria Opposed to Loans for Coping with Refugee Wave"
October 25 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - "I categorically reject the idea of contracting a loan from international financial institutions in order to cope with the refugee wave," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told a news conference in Brussels on Sunday ev...
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Candidates, Politicians Comment on Local Election Results
October 27 (BTA) - Candidates and political leaders commented on the results of Bulgaria's local elections on Sunday. Commenting on the election results from Brussels, where he attended an extraordinary EU summit on migration, Bulgarian Prime Minister and GERB leader Boyko Bo...
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