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Killer of British Woman in Yambol Village Arrested
August 2 (BTA) - The person who killed a British woman in the village of Malomir, near Yambol, has been detained, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Sunday. The killer is a repeat offender.
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Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Bulgarian National Movement: Concessions in Negotiations on Good Neighb...
August 2 (BTA) - Speaking to a BTA reporter, Deputy Chairman of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Bulgarian National Movement Iskren Vesselinov said that the biggest danger for the Bulgarian foreign policy towards the Republic of Macedonia in the negotiations on ...
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Employers Organizations Warn that New Price of Electricity Will Cause Loss of Jobs, Push Up Retail Prices
August 2 (BTA) - The increase of the price of electricity for industrial consumers will lead to lower incomes, loss of jobs and higher retail prices, which will be felt already in the coming months, Chairman of the Association of Industrial Capital in Bulgaria Vassil Velev told ...
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Bulgaria Wins Three Medals at European Youth Olympic Festival
August 1 (BTA) - Bulgaria won three medals at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi. All three distinctions came on Saturday, the last day of the festival.
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ABV Party Approves 103 Mayoral Candidates
August 1 (BTA) - The ABV party's election campaign chief Roumen Petkov told journalists on Saturday that his party is not likely to support Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova for reelection. At a meeting earlier in the day, the ABV National Council approved 103 candidates for mayo...
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Socialist Leader Mikov: We Are Embarking on March to Local Government
August 1 (BTA) - Tens of thousands of Socialists and supporters of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) gathered at Mount Bouzloudja on Saturday to celebrate the 124th anniversary of the organized Socialist Movement in Bulgaria.
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Dozens of Illegal Syrian Migrants Detained near Bulgarian-Turkish Border
August 1 (BTA) - Bulgarian border police detained dozens of illegal Syrian migrants near the village of Kapitan Andreevo, close to the border with Turkey, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday. The arrests were made after a border patrol intercepted a car and two vans. Inside...
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Document Counterfeiting Group Disrupted
August 1 (BTA) - Law enforcers uncovered an organized crime group producing and distributing counterfeit documents, the Interior Ministry reported on Saturday. The enforcement operation was conducted in the northeastern towns of Silistra and Novi Pazar on July 29 by the Chief ...
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Reformist Bloc Wants Council on Development to Meet Because Reforms Are Stalling
July 31 (BTA) - The Reformist Bloc (RB) notes that the key reforms set forth in this cabinet's programme by GERB, the RB, the Patriotic Front and ABV are stalling and insists that the Council on Development should meet early next week to prepare a roadmap setting dates for the im...
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Electricity Prices for Household Users Reduced by 0.11% on Average
July 31 (BTA) - The prices of electricity for household users will decrease by an average of 0.11 per cent as of August 1, Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) Chairman Ivan Ivanov said on Friday, emerging from a closed-door meeting at which the regulator endorsed th...
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EC Approves Bulgaria-Serbia Cross-border Cooperation Programme
July 31 (BTA) - The European Commission has approved the Bulgaria-Serbia Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020, said the Regional Development and Public Works Ministry on Friday. The approval came on the day when the Programme's monitoring committee held its first meet...
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Bulgarian Democratic Centre MPs Submit Statements of Leaving Group to Floor Leaders
July 31 (BTA) - MPs of the Popular Union, part of the Bulgarian Democratic Centre (BDC) parliamentary group, have submitted statements that they are leaving the group to the floor leaders, the union's press office said.
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National Assembly Discusses Bulgaria's Demographic Outlook
July 31 (BTA) - The National Assembly on Friday debated a question about Bulgaria's demographic outlook raised by Socialist MPs Mihail Mikov and Kornelia Ninova and addressed to Deputy Prime Minister for Demographic and Social Policy and Minister of Labour and Social Policy ...
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Analysis of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Impact on Bulgaria Is Necessary - Environmentalists
July 31 (BTA) - There is no analysis what impact the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will have on Bulgaria, Ivailo Popov of the For the Nature environmental association told a BTA-hosted news conference Friday. The news conference also featured other represe...
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Eurostat: Bulgaria Unemployment at 9.6% in June
July 31 (BTA) - The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Bulgaria in June 2015 was 9.6 per cent, compared with 9.7 per cent in May 2015 and 11.4 per cent in June 2014, the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) reported on Friday. There were 320,000 unemployed Bu...
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Central Bank Governing Board Resolves to Publicize Members' Remuneration
July 31 (BTA) - The monthly remuneration of the members of the Governing Board of the National Bank of Bulgaria (BNB, the central bank) is 15,368 leva for the governor, 13,173 leva for the under-governors, and 4,391 leva for the other board members, BNB said in a press release. T...
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Bank Deposit Guarantee Act Passes Conclusively
July 30 (BTA) - The National Assembly approved an entirely new Bank Deposit Guarantee Act on second reading Thursday. It had been proposed by the Council of Ministers. The Act transposes the EU's 2014 Directive on Deposit Guarantee Schemes into national legislation.
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Migration Is Becoming Less Spontaneous, More Assisted
July 30 (BTA) - Opening an extraordinary meeting of Salzburg Forum police chiefs here on Thursday, Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova said that migration is becoming less spontaneous and more assisted and is run by large transborder human trafficking organizations. The oper...
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Parliament Passes Conclusively Amendments to Environmental Protection Act
July 30 (BTA) - Approval of an investment plan to build a new enterprise/facility and modify and/or extend an existing enterprise/facility with a low or high risk potential shall be done on the basis of additional information and an assessment of the type and quantity of the avai...
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Survey Shows Decline of Crime Victim Numbers Compared to 2012 Record High
July 30 (BTA) - In spite of the fact that last year the number of crime victims declined in comparison to the record-high levels in 2012, the level of crime remains high, the National Crime Survey (NCS) shows. The National Crime Survey 2014-2015 was presented Thursday by Tihom...
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