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Tests Ruled Out Ebola in Bulgarian Patient Returning from Sierra Leone
November 21 (BTA) - Tests have ruled out Ebola as the cause for the condition of a patient who was admitted to hospital with flu-like symptoms in Sofia Thursday after returning from Sierra Leone, said the director of the National Centre for Infection and parasitic Diseases, D...
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Defence Chief Meets Montenegrin Chief of General Staff
November 20 (BTA) - Chief of Defence Rear Admiral Rumen Nikolov on Thursday conferred with Montenegrin Chief of General Staff Admiral Dragan Samardzic, the Defence Ministry said. The two discussed future development of bilateral military relations and regional security and...
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National Football Team Coach Penev Sacked
November 20 (BTA) - The coach of the Bulgarian national football team, Lyuboslav Penev, was sacked at Thursday's extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU), BFU Vice-President Yordan Lechkov said.
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Bulgarian Christmas Charity Collects 2,160,000 Lv in 2013/2014
November 20 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Christmas charity campaign 2013/2014 collected 2,160,000 leva thanks to hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians, President Rosen Plevneliev said. He presented the results of the campaign at Alexandrovska Hospital on Thursday. The motto of the ...
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Young Flood Relief Volunteers Win European Citizen's Prize
November 20 BTA) - Young volunteers who participated in flood relief efforts in the Black Sea city of Varna earlier this year, won the European Citizen's Prize for 2014 of the European Parliament. This was announced by MEP Momchil Nekov who nominated the Varna volunteers for ...
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Government Approves Draft Transport and Transport Infrastructure Operational Programme
November 20 (BTA) - Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski said Thursday that the new Operational Programme (OP) Transport and Transport Infrastructure 2014-2020 has been approved by the government at a meeting of the programme's monitoring committee. The programme will be submi...
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Prime Minister Borissov Determines His Four Deputies' Coordination Functions
November 20 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has determined his four deputies' functions of coordinating the common policy of the Government and interacting with the executive bodies with the Cabinet, the Government Information Service said Thursday.
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National Assembly Chair Tsacheva Confers with UNICEF Representative in Bulgaria Radocaj
November 20 (BTA) - "We are still indebted to our children. The successful development and the future of our society depend on our care of them at present," Bulgarian National Assembly Chair Tsetska Tsacheva said here on Thursday at a meeting with the UNICEF Representative in...
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National Ombudsman Submits to Parliament Report on Problems in Exercise of Consumer Rights
November 20 (BTA) - Bulgaria's National Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev has submitted to Parliament a report on the problems in the exercise of consumer rights, detected by him in 2013 and 2014, Penchev's office said on Thursday. The report emphasizes that Bulgarian citizens s...
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GERB Deputy Chair Tsvetanov to Attend Chabad Annual Conference in New York
November 20 (BTA) - GERB Floor Leader and GERB Party Deputy Chairman Tsvetan Tsvetanov is leaving on a working visit to the US, GERB said in a press release on Thursday. In New York, he will be a special guest at the Annual Conference of Chabad, the world's largest Jewish r...
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Trade Union Confederation Urges for New Incomes Policy
November 20 (BTA) - The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) is disappointed at the lack of understanding that the flat income tax leads to deeper poverty, the Confederation said in a press release Thursday, prompted by Wednesday's defeat in Parliame...
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Patriotic Front Leaders Tell PM Borissov why they Object to Appointment of Orhan Ismailov as Deputy Defence Minister
November 19 (BTA) - The leaders of the Patriotic Front (PF) coalition, Krassimir Karakachanov and Valeri Simeonov, met with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to familiarize him with their views regarding the appointment of Orhan Ismailov as deputy minister of defence, the two tol...
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Government Mandated to Negotiate Up to Lv 3 Bln in Foreign Debt with Banks
November 19 (BTA) - Parliament mandated the government to negotiate with banks a new foreign debt which, in 2014, cannot exceed 3 billion leva or its equivalent in another currency. The resolution was backed by 117 MPs of GERB, the Reformist Bloc, the Patriotic Front, the B...
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Commercial Bank Victoria to Reopen on December 12, Depositors Will Have Access to their Funds
November 19 (BTA) - The Governing Council of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has given the conservators of Commercial Bank Victoria mandatory instructions to make the necessary working arrangements so that the bank would restart full-scale services on December 12, 2014, the...
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Parliament Rejects Bills Introducing Progressive Income Tax in Place of Flat Rate
November 19 (BTA) - Parliament rejected two bills amending the Income Taxes on Natural Persons Act on first reading on Wednesday. The two bills, introduced by Ataka and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) - Left Bulgaria, proposed that the 10 per cent flat income tax rate be ...
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Bulgaria Voices "Serious Concern" over "Dramatic Escalation" of Situation in Jerusalem
November 19 (BTA) - "Bulgaria voices serious concern over the dramatic escalation of the situation in Jerusalem which, after the terrorist act committed on November 18, threatens to assume an inter-ethnic and inter-faith character," Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov sai...
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Parliament Adopts Phased Increase of Excise Duty on Cigarettes from 2016, EU Minimum to Be Reached January 1, 2018
November 19 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Parliament Wednesday passed on first reading amendments to the Excise Duties and Tax Warehouses Act, providing for a phased increase of the excise duty on cigarettes until it reaches the EU minimum of 90 euro per 1,000 cigarettes by December 31,...
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EP Budgetary Control Committee Chair: Bulgaria Should Restore National Audit Office's Independence
November 19 (BTA) - Ingeborg Grassle, Chair of the European Parliament Budgetary Control Committee, Tuesday expressed her certainty that under the Government of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Bulgaria will follow the road along which it will be supported by the European Parli...
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Labour Minister Kalfin: Serious Debate on Reform in Pension System Remains for 2015
November 19 (BTA) - The serious debate on the reform in the pension system remains for 2015, and it cannot be solved in the budget procedure for next year, Labour and Social Policy Minister Ivailo Kalfin told journalists Wednesday.
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President Plevneliev: Polish Business May Profit from Bulgarian High Value-Added Industries
November 19 (BTA) - "The Polish business can invest in a completely different Bulgaria, which for the past several years has promoted high value-added industries," said President Rosen Plevneliev on Tuesday. Plevneliev and his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski took part...
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