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Socialists Confirm Decision to Stay in Opposition
December 21 (BTA) - The new incumbents have frozen social payments to 14 social groups, which categorically confirms that the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) was right, when it decided to stay in opposition, BSP leader Mihail Mikov said emerging from a meeting of the BSP Nati...
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Bulgaria Threatened with Infringement Procedures over Regional Waste Depots
December 21 (BTA) - Bulgaria is still under the threat of being sanctioned over its regional waste depots, Environment and Water Minister Ivelina Vassileva told journalists at the Rakitnitsa Village.
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Defence Minister Nenchev: Cuts in Administration Are Quite Likely
December 20 (BTA) - Defence MinisterNikolay Nenchev told a news conference on Saturday that cuts in the armed forces' administration were quite likely. Nenchev, who co-chairs the Reformist Bloc, added that he did not consider combat personnel cuts necessary.
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Bulgarian Medical Association Decides to Sign 2015 National Framework Agreement
December 20 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Medical Association (BMA) will sign the 2015 National Framework Agreement. However, BMA President Tsvetan Raychinov expressed doubts that the Supervisory Board of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) would manage to meet by the year's en...
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Nikolai Barekov Withdraws Unconditional Support for Bulgarian Democratic Centre Group in Parliament
December 20 (BTA) - Nikolai Barekov MEP (Member of the Bureau of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group) and leader of Bulgaria without Censorship (BwC) , said on Saturday he was withdrawing his unconditional support for the parliamentary group of the Bulgarian Democ...
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Fitch Affirms Bulgaria at 'BBB-';Outlook Stable
December 20 (BTA) - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bulgaria's Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'BBB-'and 'BBB', respectively. The Outlooks are Stable. The issue ratings on Bulgaria's senior unsecured foreign and local currency bonds have also been ...
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2015 National Budget Act Passes Conclusively
December 20 (BTA) - After a nearly 17-hour debate which ended in the small hours of Saturday, Parliament adopted the framework of the 2015 National Budget Act after adopting the budgets of the National Health Insurance Fund and of Public Social Insurance.
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State Public Insurance Budget Bill Debated on Second Reading
December 19 (BTA) - Parliament is debating the Consolidated Budget of the 2015 State Public Insurance Budget Bill on second reading on Friday. There was a heated debate on GERB's proposal that persons born after December 31, 1959 will be able to choose, on a single occasio...
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State Public Insurance Budget Bill Debated on Second Reading
December 19 (BTA) - Parliament adopted Friday the Consolidated Budget of the 2015 State Public Insurance Budget Bill, setting revenues and transfers at 9,633,205, 500 leva, and expenditures and transfers at 9,629,267,000 leva.
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Consolidated Budget of State Public Insurance Adopted
December 19 (BTA) - Parliament adopted Friday the 2015 consolidated budget of the State Public Insurance, setting revenues and transfers at 9,633,205, 500 leva, and expenditures and transfers at 9,629,267,000 leva.
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Energy Ministers of Bulgaria, Russia Discuss South Stream over the Phone
December 19 (BTA) - Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova discussed the South Stream gas pipeline project with her Russian counterpart Alexander Novak over the phone on Friday. This transpired in an Energy Ministry statement which quoted Petkova as saying that Russia ...
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Parliament Adopts Conclusively National Health Insurance Fund Budget
December 19 (BTA) - Parliament adopted conclusively the 2015 National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) Budget Act on Friday. It passed on the votes of a majority including GERB, the Reformist Bloc, the Patriotic Front and ABV. The Socialists, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms ...
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President Plevneliev Concerned over Contemplated Changes in Pension System
December 19 (BTA) - President Rosen Plevneliev expressed concern over contemplated changes in the pension system. He set out his position in a special statement made public Friday on the 2015 Public Social Insurance Budget Bill.
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Borissov: "Sanctions Are Having Worse Effect on Bulgaria than on Russia Itself"
December 19 (BTA correspondent Nickolay Jeliazkov) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that the EU sanctions against Russia are affecting Bulgaria worse than they do Russia. "Bulgaria has a package of problems with Russia that it needs to solve and the sanctions wh...
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Bulgaria's New Operational Programme Transport Gets EC Approval
December 19 (BTA correspondent Nickolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission has approved Operational Programme Transport for Bulgaria until 2020, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said here Thursday. Speaking to Bulgarian reporters after a meeting of the European Council, he sai...
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PM Borissov Participates in European Council Meeting
December 18 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - Speaking to journalists here on Thursday upon his arrival to take part in the European Council meeting, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that everyone views seriously the problem in Bulgaria and understands that "we are pl...
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Reformist Bloc Urge GERB to Withdraw Motion Changing Retirement Insurance Model
December 18 (BTA) - The Reformist Bloc Thursday called on GERB, who are their partners in the governing coalition, to withdraw proposed legislative amendments that, in their opinion, change the retirement insurance model.
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Parliament Passes Amendments on First Reading Returning Organized Crime Control Directorate to Interior Ministry
December 18 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Parliament Thursday passed on first reading amendments to the Ministry of Interior Act transferring the Chief Directorate for Combating Organized Crime from the State Agency for National Security (SANS) back to the Interior Ministry.
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Minister: "Internal Compensatory Mechanisms" Will be Sought for Bulgarian Railways after Lowered State Subsidy
December 18 (BTA) - The subsidy for the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) will be reduced by 40 million leva and the money will go instead as a targeted capital transfer for repayment of the company's loans, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski told reporters here Thursday.
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Vice President Popova: Bulgaria, Morocco Can Expand Cooperation in Social, Economic Sphere, Migration Issues, Culture
December 18 (BTA) - Bulgaria and Morocco have developed excellent bilateral relations over more than half a century and these are a stable base for future cooperation in a number of spheres, Bulgarian Vice President Margarita Popova said in Rabat on Wednesday, meeting with th...
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