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Israel Finances Four Centres for Oncological Diseases in Bulgaria
December 16 (BTA) - Four centres for the treatment of oncological diseases will be unveiled in Bulgaria with the help of Israeli investments, Israeli Ambassador here Shaul Kamiza-Ras said before journalists on Tuesday.
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Limiting Transport's Harmful Effects on Environment Is Among Ministry's Priorities
December 16 (BTA) - Limiting the harmful effects of transport on the environment is one of the Transport Ministry's priorities, said Deputy Minister of Transport Anton Ginev here on Thursday during the opening of a forum, presenting the activities of the Green Freight Transpo...
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Bulgaria Condemns Pakistan School Attack
December 16 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday strongly condemned a brutal terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar, Northwestern Pakistan, earlier in the day which killed over 100 people, most of them children.
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee Finds Mass Violence Against Children in Correctional, Boarding Schools
December 16 (BTA) - A check of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) found mass cases of direct and indirect physical violence against children in correctional and boarding schools in Bulgaria, Zheni Ivanova of the BHC said at a BTA-hosted news conference Tuesday.
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President Says Delaying Pension Reform Is Not Good News
December 16 (BTA) - President Rosen Plevneliev said on Tuesday that delaying the pension reform is not good news and there can only be one valid reason for it: the desire to achieve consensus on the matter among employers, trade unions and the other stakeholders. Plevneliev e...
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Bulgaria's Finances in 2014: Public Purse Is in the Red, But Banking System Is Stable Despite Corpbank Crisis
December 16 (Mara Bareva of BTA) - The year 2014 has been one of upheaval in Bulgaria's financial and banking sectors. After three changes of government and two successive updates of the national budget, the country's public purse is bound to end up in the red with an expect...
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World Bank Offers Help to Boost SMEs, Innovation in Bulgaria
December 15 (BTA) - Meeting with World Bank Country Manager for Bulgaria Tony Thompson on Monday, Economy Minister Bozhidar Loukarski said that one of the priorities of the Bulgarian government is to provide an efficient legal framework and support to small and medium-sized e...
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PM Borissov, German Chancellor Merkel Discuss South Stream
December 15 (BTA Special Correspondent Nikolay Zheliazkov ) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin on Monday. Speaking at a joint news conference after the talks, she wished the Bulgarian...
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Corpbank Licence Trial Starts
December 15 (BTA) - The trial over the licence of the troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) started at the Supreme Administrative Court on Monday. The case started on a petition by the Corpbank shareholders which challenge a decision by the central bank of November ...
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Corpbank Licence Trial Starts
December 15 (BTA) - The trial over the licence of the troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) started at the Supreme Administrative Court on Monday. The case started on a petition by the Corpbank shareholders which challenge a decision by the central bank of November ...
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Corruption in Judicial System Is Reproducing, National Ombudsman Says
December 15 (BTA) - The judicial system is corrupt, from the junior judges right to the top, National Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev said in a video interview for BTA Monday. The policies and trends in the judicial system are managed by the "bad guys" and today the judicial sy...
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Turbot Catch Limit in Black Sea Remains 43.2 Tonnes
December 15 (BTA) - At its meeting on Monday, the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council decided that the turbot catch limit in the Black Sea will remain 43.2 tonnes in 2015, the Bulgarian Agriculture and Food Ministry said.
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21 Per Cent of Bulgarians Were Below the Poverty Line in 2013
December 15 (BTA) - In 2013, the average monthly poverty line for Bulgaria was 285.92 leva per person. The persons below that line numbered 1,527,500, or 21.0 per cent of the country's population. Compared to the previous year, the poverty line increased by 2.2 per cent, a...
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Sofia Airport Reports 4.7% Increase in Passengers Serviced in November Y/Y
December 15 (BTA) - Sofia Airport Monday reported a 4.7 per cent increase in the number of passengers serviced in November 2014 compared to the same month of 2013. A total of 263,564 passengers were serviced last month, of which 251,140 were travelling on international schedu...
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PM Borissov on Official Visit to Germany
December 15 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov opened an official visit to Germany (December 14-15) Sunday evening by a meeting with members of the Bulgarian community in Berlin, the Government Information Service said.
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870 km Optical Route to Link 29 Municipalities
December 15 (BTA) - Testing is starting of optical cable routes linking municipal and regional capitals that are being built under a EU-co-funded high-speed next-generation broadband Internet access project, Krassimir Simonski, Executive Director of the Electronic Communicati...
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Passenger Train Connects Sofia and Budapest Through Danube Bridge 2
December 14 (BTA) - As of Sunday, a passenger train connects Sofia, Vidin and Budapest through Danube Bridge 2 (between Vidin in Bulgaria and Calafat in Romania), Vidin's regional administration said. The new international railway line has been included in the train schedule...
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Deputy Prime Minister Kuneva Checks Sofia Airport's Readiness to Work in Conformity with Schengen Requirements
December 14 (BTA) - Deputy Prime Minister for European Policy and Institutional Affairs Meglena Kuneva Sunday told journalists that she will not stop trying to convince all critics of Bulgaria's entry in Schengen that the country is ready. Kuneva and Deputy Interior Minister ...
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Government, Trade Unions Agree on Keeping Retirement Age Unchanged in 2015
December 14 (BTA) - The Government and trade unions Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding, according to which the retirement age will remain unchanged in 2015 and a long-term solution to the issues related to the pension reform should be found by March 31. The document ...
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Agriculture Ministry Publishes Draft Amendments of Tobacco Act for Public Consultation
December 13 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Ministry of Agriculture and Food Saturday published on its Website draft amendments to the Tobacco and Tobacco Products Act for public consultation. The revisions are intended to strike a balance between total market liberalization and total mar...
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