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Labour Minister Kalfin Proposes that Retirement Age Reaches 65 for Males in 2029, Females in 2037
January 20 (BTA) - Labour and Social Policy Minister Ivaylo Kalfin proposed a gradual retirement age increase for the most common work Category 3, according to which males will retire at 65 in 2029, while females will have to retire at this age some eight years later - in 203...
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Direct Payments to Farmers for 2015 Campaign Totals Lv 1.4 Bln - Minister
January 20 (BTA) - The total budget for direct payments in the 2015 campaign stands at 1,400 million leva, with coupled payment being applied for the first time, Agriculture and Food Minister Dessislava Taneva told a news conference Tuesday. Taneva and Deputy Agriculture Mini...
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Germany Reopens Investment Guarantee Scheme for Bulgaria
January 20 (BTA) - Germany will reopen an investment guarantee scheme for Bulgaria, the Economy Ministry said on Tuesday, quoting a press release published on the website of Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy.
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Borissov to Business Community: No Way to Form a Better Government
January 20 (BTA) - Addressing the traditional annual meeting of the government and business on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said: "I am far from saying that we have come to deeply love one another, we just know that we cannot have anything better than what we have n...
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Swiss Programme to Assist with Safe Pesticide Disposal, Hazardous Household Waste Storage
January 20 (BTA) - The Bulgarian-Swiss Cooperation Programme will finance projects for the safe disposal of obsolete pesticides and the temporary storage of hazardous household waste. This emerged at a news conference Monday at the Council of Ministers.
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Bulgaria to Insist on EU Support for Producers of Milk and Milk Products due to Russian Embargo
January 20 (BTA) - At the January 26 EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting, Bulgaria will call for EU-wide measures in support of producers of milk and milk products, according to a draft position approved on Monday by the Council on European Affairs, the government in...
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Economy Minister Loukarski: Given Russian Sanctions, Ukraine Is an Alternative Market for Bulgaria
January 20 (BTA) - Meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador Mykola Baltazhy on Monday, Economy Minister Bozhidar Loukarski said Bulgaria would seek markets as an alternative to Russia, and Ukraine could be one of them, his Ministry said.
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Bulgaria to Insist on Much More Significant Support from EU for Refugees
January 19 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - Bulgaria is subjected to a very strong pressure because of refugees and illegal immigrants, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov Monday told Bulgarian journalists in Brussels, where he took part in a EU Foreign Affairs Council. He s...
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GERB Floor Leader: National Referendum on Compulsory Voting Should be Held Simultaneously with 2015 Local Elections
January 19 (BTA) - The GERB party's idea is that a national referendum on the introduction of compulsory voting should be held simultaneously with the 2015 local elections, GERB Floor Leader Tsvetan Tsvetanov told journalists in Chepelare (Southern Bulgaria) on Monday, quoted...
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Culture Ministry to Support Entry of Actress Stoyanka Moutafova in Guinness Records as Longest-playing Actress on Stage
January 19 (BTA) - The Ministry of Culture will support the official letter with which the Union of Bulgarian Actors will request Stoyanka Moutafova to be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the actress with the longest record of playing on stage in the world, Cu...
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Environment and Water Ministry Makes Available 3.5 Million Leva for Small Projects of Municipalities, Children's Establi...
January 19 (BTA) - The Environment and Water Ministry will make available 3.5 million leva this year as well in the campaign called, "For a Clean Environment," Environment and Water Minister Ivelina Vassileva told a news conference Monday.
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Bulgarian Companies in 23 Sectors to Be Rated according to Economic Condition and Social Responsibility
January 19 (BTA) - Bulgarian companies in 23 sectors will participate in a rating system of employers every year, said Bozhidar Danev, Executive Chairman of the Bulgarian Industrial Association (BIA), and Plamen Dimitrov, President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Un...
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Incumbents Present Administrative Reform Priorities
January 19 (BTA) - The aim of improving the administration's work is to make governance open and transparent, Deputy Prime Minister for Coalition Policy and Public Administration Roumyana Buchvarova told journalists at the Council of Ministers building on Monday. She presente...
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Industrial Association Warns Politicians against Dramatic Changes to Pension System
January 19 (BTA) - The Executive Chairman of the Bulgarian Industrial Association (BIA), Bozhidar Danev, on Monday urged politicians to be cautious about pension reforms and warned against dramatic changes. Danev was speaking at a joint press conference of BIA and the Confede...
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PM Borissov: The Whole of Europe Stands behind Bulgaria, All EU Programmes Are in Operation
January 18 (BTA) - Addressing a general meeting of Women GERB, the party's women's wing, GERB leader and Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said: "The whole of Europe stands behind Bulgaria, all the EU funds were released and we will not lose any financing. You can see the attitud...
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Foreign Minister Mitov to Take Part in EU Foreign Affairs Council
January 18 (BTA) - Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov will take part in the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, his Ministry said on Sunday. The agenda of the forum includes discussions on EU-Russia relations and the development of the situation in Ukraine, the f...
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Agriculture Ministry Wants Fees Collected from Exceeding Dairy Production Quotas to Be Given to Dairy Farmers
January 17 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Agriculture and Food Ministry will join efforts with other Member States to draft a proposal for the European Commission, which calls for directing the fees, collected from exceeding the dairy production quotas, to help the EU dairy sector. Ag...
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Labour Ministry's Budget Provides 442,000 Leva for Integration of Refugees
January 17 (BTA) - The Head of the National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Integration Issues with the Council of Ministers and Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Ivaylo Kalfin, conferred here with the Office of the United Nations Highs Commissioner for Refugees (...
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ABV Leader Purvanov: ABV Affirms Itself as Social Corrective in Bulgarian Politics
January 17 (BTA) - The ABV party is affirming itself as a social corrective in Parliament and in politics as a whole, said the party's leader and former president (2002-2012) Georgi Purvanov here on Saturday on the occasion of the first anniversary of ABV's restart as a poli...
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Country-wide Protests against Suspension of Train Services
January 17 (BTA) - Hundreds came out to protest on Saturday against the suspension of train services and reductions in the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ), which the Transport Ministry has started enforcing since the beginning of this year.
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