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Additional 1,600 Voting Machines for November 14 Elections Expected by October 31
October 21 (BTA) - The Central Election Commission (CEC) has concluded a contract with Ciela Norma AD for the delivery of an additional 1,600 voting machines needed for the November 14 elections, CEC Spokesperson Rositsa Mateva told a briefing Thursday. The machines shoul...
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Bulgarian World-Class Supercomputer Goes into Operation
Sofia, October 21 (BTA) - The Bulgarian supercomputer Discoverer was officially inaugurated at the Sofia Tech Park (STP) in the capital city on Thursday, STP Supervisory Board Chairman Peter Statev told a news conference. Discoverer has achieved performance of 4.5 Petaflops (...
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Bulgaria's Government Debt in 2020 at 24.7% of GDP
Sofia, October 21 (BTA) - According to final data, the government debt of Bulgaria for 2020 stands at 29,602 million leva or 24.7 per cent of GDP, the National Statistical Institute reported reported here on Thursday. The General Government Institutional Sector reported a de...
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Central Bank Deputy Governor Stoyanova Opens 4th Banking Forum on Future of Money
Sofia, October 20 (BTA) - Opening the 4th Banking and Financial Forum on the future of money here on Wednesday, Bulgarian National Bank Deputy Governor Nina Stoyanova said that new technologies change the finance sector by creating various financial products in a serious and s...
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Stranded Bulk Carrier's Shipmaster, Second Assistant Shipmaster Remanded in Custody
October 19 (BTA) - The Varna Appellate Court (VAC) has left in custody the shipmaster and second assistant shipmaster of the stranded bulk carrier "Vera Su", the Court said in a press release on Tuesday. The decision is unappealable. The 32-years-old Panamanian-flagged...
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September Inflation at 4.8% Year on Year
October 18 (BTA) - The National Statistical Institute reported here on Monday that inflation in September 2021 was 4.8 per cent compared to September 2020, and 0.4 compared to August 2021. The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (September 2021 compared to D...
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Two Enterprising Roma Families Find Livelihood in Beekeeping
Sofia, October 14 (Iva Tontcheva of BTA) - For several months now Dilyan Nikolov and Detelina Dokova, a young Roma family with three children from Djurovo village near Sofia, have taken up beekeeping. Under the guidance of their mentor, apiarist Todor Pushkarov, they have lear...
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Caretaker PM Yanev Confers with European Commission Executive Vice President Timmermans
Sofia, October 15 (BTA) - Bulgarian caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev held a meeting with European Commission Executive Vice President for the European Green Deal Frans Timmermans here on Friday, Government Information Service said. Timmermans was in Sofia for a forum ent...
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BTA Green - New Free Service on Environment
October 14 (BTA) - The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is launching a new service, BTA Green, dedicated solely to environment, Director General Kiril Valchev told a news conference here Thursday. He made the announcement on the day of the 5-year anniversary of the ratificati...
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EC Vice President for Democracy and Demography Suica (left) with Deputy Prime Minister Donev Photo by Ministry of Labour and Social Policy /МЙ/
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Bulgaria's GDP Grows by 6.4% in Q2 of 2021 - Finance Ministry
Sofia, October 12 (BTA) - In the second quarter of 2021, Bulgaria's GDP grew by 6.4 per cent year-on-year with a positive contribution from domestic demand, reads the Finance Ministry's Monthly Report on Bulgarian Economy. It assesses the short-term dynamic of main eco...
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Bulgaria's GDP Grows by 6.4% in Q2 of 2021 - Finance Ministry
October 12 (BTA) - In the second quarter of 2021, Bulgaria's GDP grew by 6.4 per cent year-on-year with a positive contribution from domestic demand, reads the Finance Ministry's Monthly Report on Bulgarian Economy. It assesses the short-term dynamic of main economic indicators, ...
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15th Annual Conference between Government, Business Focuses on Energy Price Crisis, Recovery and Resilience Plan
Sofia, October 12 (BTA) - The 15th Annual Government Meets the Business Conference, oragnized by Capital, focused on the energy price crisis and the opportunities for stabilizing the economy through the Recovery and Resilience Plan. Caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev said h...
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Bulgaria Has No Incomes Policy - Experts
Sofia, October 11 (BTA) - There is no incomes policy in Bulgaria, the subject of incomes and inequalities is not on the agenda of society or the political forces, said Georgi Pirinski, Chairman of the Solidarity Society Foundation, addressing Monday an online discussion of inc...
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Bulgaria Air Restores Service to Israel as of Mid-October
October 11 (BTA) - As of October 14 Bulgaria Air, the national air carrier, restores flights between Bulgaria and Israel, the airline said on Monday. Flights from Sofia and Tel Aviv will be every Thursday and Sunday. The air service is restored after Israel was adde...
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Volume of Bulgaria's Agricultural Production Drops by 11% in 2020, Year on Year
Sofia, October 11 (BTA) - The value of the final output produced by Bulgaria's agriculture in 2020 was valued at 7, 866.1 million leva, down 4.5 per cent from 2019. The decrease was mainly due to a 11.0 per cent decrease in the volume of production, despite a 7.3 per cent ...
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Road Builders Block Central Sofia in Fourth National Protest
Sofia, October 11 (BTA) - Bulgarian road construction workers staged a fourth national protest here on Monday over a lack of dialogue with the government and its refusal to pay over 900 million leva for road construction and maintenance carried out in recent months. Some 3,000...
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Industrial Production Grows By 10.8% in August Y-Y
October 8 (BTA) - According to the preliminary data in August 2021, the Industrial Production Index, seasonally adjusted, increased by 1.8 per cent compared with July 2021, the National Statistical Institute said on Friday. In August 2021, the calendar adjusted Industr...
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DPA's Antje Homburger Receives EANA's Maxim Minchev Award for New Agency Quality 2021
Vienna, October 8 (BTA) - The newly established award for quality agency journalism of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) was conferred on Friday to DPA's deputy editor-in-chief and head of news Antje Homburger. Homburger received the award for DPA's Infoka...
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Bolgare Municipality in Northern Italy Names a Street after Bulgarian National Hero Vasil Levski
October 7 (BTA) - A new street named after Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski, was opened today in the municipality of Bolgare, near the town of Bergamo in northern Italy, at the initiative of Bulgaria's Consul General in Milan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced...
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