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Foreign Minister Mitov Calls for More US Investments in Bulgaria
July 17 (BTA) - Bulgaria wants more US investments and tourists, and the country offers suitable conditions for both. It is developing stably against the background of economic and political difficulties faced by a series of European countries, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov s...
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Bulgaria Won't Be Obstacle to Greek Bridging Loan
July 17 (BTA) - Bulgaria won't be an obstacle to the extension of 7 billion euro in emergency financing to Greece provided there are legal guarantees that Bulgaria and the other non-euro area countries won't be affected directly if developments in Greece deteriorate and additiona...
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Deputy Prime Minister Kalfin Participates in Informal EU Employment, Social Affairs, Gender Equality Meeting
July 17 (BTA) - Deputy Prime Minister and Labour and Social Policy Minister Ivailo Kalfin participated in an informal EU Council on Employment, Social Affairs and Gender Equality in Luxembourg on July 16-17. Addressing the meeting, Kalfin hailed the initiative of the Luxembour...
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Bulgaria Had 391 Physicians per 100,000 Inhabitants in 2012
July 17 (BTA) - Bulgaria had 391 professionally active or licensed physicians per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012, according to a report on healthcare personnel in the EU member states and other European countries published by Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Union) o...
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Revisions in Energy Act Will Not Allow EU-Funded RES Projects to Sell All Their Output at Preferential Prices
July 16 (BTA) - Proposed revisions in the Energy Act will make impossible a situation in which power plants using renewable energy sources (RES) are built on EU funding and then sell all of their electricity output at preferential prices, the head of the parliamentary energy comm...
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Number of Pasture Users' Animals Should Correspond to Size of Areas Used, Parliament Decides
July 16 (BTA) - Users of state and municipal pastures and commons who do not own animals or the number of the animals does not correspond to the areas they use will have to acquire the number and species corresponding to the standard per area for one animal, set down in the ...
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Bulgaria Reluctant to Participate in Emergency Financing for Greece - Deputy PM
July 16 (BTA) - Deputy Prime Minister Roumyana Buchvarova said here Thursday that the government "is not positively disposed" to the calls of the European Commission to EU member states to help Greece start its new three-year bailout programme. Speaking to reporters, she sa...
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Reformist Bloc and ABV Bewildered at Nominations for Central Bank Deputy Governors
July 16 (BTA) - Members of the ruling majority differed in their reactions to Wednesday's nominations for deputy governors of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) made by the new Governor of the central bank, Dimitar Radev. On Thursday, MPs of the Reformist Bloc and ABV express...
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Justice Minister, Prosecutor General Agree that Judicial Reform Must not Be Carried Out under Pressure from the Street
Sofia, July 16 (BTA) - Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov and Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov agreed on Thursday that the judicial reform must not be carried out under pressure from the street.
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Trade Union Says VMZ Ordnance Plant Is Being Pushed Intentionally Towards Bankruptcy
July 16 (BTA) - According to the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB), the VMZ Sopot Ordnance Plant is being led towards bankruptcy intentionally, the aim being to change the ownership of the plant by means of the procedure, the CITUB chapter of the w...
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Bulgaria Strives to Be Part of Moderate Innovators Group in EU - Economy Minister Loukarski
July 16 (BTA) - Economy Minister Bozhidar Loukarski said during a Thursday Bulgarian-Israeli innovations forum that Bulgaria's strategic goal is to make a qualitative leap in its innovations performance in the EU by 2020, and move up to the so called moderate innovators grou...
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Movement for Rights and Freedoms Does not Support Reformist Bloc's Constitutional Amendments
July 15 (BTA) - The Reformist Bloc (RB) did not get the Movement for Rights and Freedoms' (MRF) support for the constitutional amendments related to the Judiciary, which Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov proposed. Radan Kanev, Nayden Zelenogorski, Peter Moskov and Atanas Atanass...
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European Commission Encourages Reforms in Bulgaria in Accordance with Proposed Justice and Home Affairs Measures
July 15 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission encourages the continuation of reforms in Bulgaria for completing the proposed measures in the areas of justice and home affairs, BTA learned from sources from the Council of the EU, where Bulgaria's prog...
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PM Borissov to Ministers: Whoever Requests Additional Resources Should Tender Their Resignation
July 15 (BTA) - At Wednesday's regular meeting of the Cabinet, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov warned the ministers that any demands for additional resources should be accompanied by the corresponding minister's resignation, the Government Information Service said.
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Government Sets Up Bulgarian Financial Instruments Manager Fund
July 15 (BTA) - The Council of Ministers on Wednesday set up a Bulgarian Financial Instruments Manager Fund (BFIMF) as a state-owned single-shareholder joint stock company, the Cabinet's Press Service reported. This so-called "funds' fund" will be in charge of managing the fin...
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Natural Gas Price in Bulgaria Not Expected to Rise
July 15 (BTA) - The prices of natural gas in Bulgaria are not expected to rise for the time being, and the nuclear deal with Iran is having a favourable influence on the world market prices of gas, Energy and Water Regulatory Commission Chairman Ivan Ivanov commented to journalis...
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Underage Mothers to Get Child-Care Allowances in Kind
July 15 (BTA) - The monthly family allowances for child care, granted to a mother who has not attained the age of 18 years, will be in kind, Bulgaria's Parliament resolved on Wednesday, passing conclusively amendments to the Family Allowances for Children Act.
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Parliament Passes Amendments to Medical-Treatment Facilities Act on First Reading
July 15 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Parliament Tuesday passed on first reading Government-proposed amendments to the Medical-Treatment Facilities Act. The vote was 102 in favour (GERB, the Reformist Bloc, the Patriotic Front and ABV), 21 against (BSP-Left Bulgaria, the Movement for Rights...
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Parliament Passes Energy Act Amendments on First Reading
July 14 (BTA) - Two bills to amend and supplement the Energy Act: one moved by GERB and another by the Reformist Bloc, were passed by Bulgaria's Parliament on first reading on Tuesday. After a break following the debate and the vote on the bills, National Assembly Deputy Chairman...
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Bulgaria Welcomes Iran Nuclear Deal
July 14 (BTA) - "Bulgaria welcomes the historic agreement reached in Vienna on July 14 on a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for the Iranian nuclear programme between the foreign ministers of E3 + 3 (the UK, Germany, France, China, Russia and the US) and Iran," the Bulgarian Fo...
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