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Plovdiv Officially Inaugurated As European Capital of Culture 2019
January 12 (BTA) - A performance entitled, "We Are All Colours" on Saturday marked the official start of Plovdiv - European Capital of Culture 2019. The official opening was attended by European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel, National Assembly Chairp...
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National Council of Opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party Adopts Vision for Bulgaria Document, Starts Process of Nominati...
January 12 (BTA) - The National Council of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Saturday held a meeting to discuss and approve BSP's Vision for Bulgaria document about the country's development, BPS said in a press release. The document, which will be officially adopted...
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PM Borissov Sends Letter to Five European Counterparts Thanking Them for Support in Mobility Package 1 Talks
January 12 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has sent letters of thanks to his counterparts in Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and Spain: Viorica Dancila, Mateusz Morawiecki, Saulius Skvernelis, Viktor Orban, and Pedro Sanchez, for the support and cooperation during the ...
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Prosecutor's Office to Examine Private Enforcement Agent's Actionsin Libyan Tanker Case
January 11 (BTA) - The Bourgas District Prosecutor's Office will check whether a private enforcement agent committed an offence in the case of the takeover of a Libyan tanker by a Bulgarian company in Bulgarian territorial waters. Pre-trial proceedings have been launched, the Pro...
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Expansion of Chiren Gas Storage Facility to Be Finished in 2024 - Energy Minister
January 11 (BTA) - The expansion of the Chiren underground gas storage facility will be concluded in 2024; that is when the construction of the facility's underground and ground installations should be finished, Energy Minister Temenouzka Petkova said during Friday's Question Tim...
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Bulgaria's Export to EU Up by 9.7% Y/Y
January 11 (BTA) - In the period January-October 2018, Bulgarian export to the EU increased by 9.7 per cent year-on-year, totalling 31,613.8 million leva. The main trade partners of Bulgaria were Germany, Italy, Romania, Greece, France and Belgium, accounting for 67.8 per cent of...
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Parliament Opens New Session
January 11 (BTA) - The National Assembly Friday formally opened its new session after the Christmas and New Year holidays. The sitting began with opening statements by the parliamentary groups mapping out their priorities in the new political season. The draft agenda for the s...
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Postponement of Fuel Act Enforcement Causes Rift among Employer Organizations
, January 10 (BTA) - The Management Board of the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIB) believes that the Council of Ministers' proposal to the National Assembly to postpone the entry into force of the Act on Administrative Regulation of Economic Activit...
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Some Economic Sectors More Active than Others in Cooperating with Universities
January 10 (BTA) - The most active sectors in terms of cooperation between businesses and higher education establishments are information technology, the extracting and manufacturing industries, the chemical industry, mechanical engineering and metallurgy. The other sectors of th...
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Construction Production Index Dropped by 1.2% M/M
January 10 (BTA) - According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute, in November 2018 the seasonally adjusted production index in section 'Construction' dropped by 1.2 per cent compared to the previous month. In November 2018, working day adjusted data also sho...
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Bulgarian Food Safety Agency Mitigates Restrictions on Movement of Small Ruminant Production in 3 Regions
January 10 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) has revised the restrictions for Yambol, Bourgas and Haskovo in relation to the small ruminants plague after the deadline for the extended measures to control the disease expired at the end of December 2018. The measures ...
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Bulgarian Road Hauliers to Stage Protest in Brussels Thursday
January 9 (BTA) - Bulgarian road hauliers will stage a protest rally in Brussels on January 10 against what they see as discriminatory provisions in proposed EU regulations collectively known as Mobility Package 1. Bulgarian Transport Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov will take part...
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World Bank Predicts Bulgaria's Economic Slowdown Will Continue in Next Three Years
January 9 (BTA) - The growth of the Bulgarian economy will continue to slow down in the next three years and by 2021 it will have lost more than a quarter of the rate at which it grew in 2016. None of the five years until 2021 saw or will see a reversal of the downward trend, Dne...
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Bulgarian Government Proposes to Parliament to Start Negotiations with the USA for New Military Aircraft
January 9 (BTA) - The Cabinet will propose to the National Assembly to review and adopt the Council of Ministers' report and to have the Council of Ministers draft an international contract and start negotiations with the US government for the acquisition of a new militar...
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Ombudsman Challenges Constitutionality of Ban for Retired Persons to Work in Civil Service
January 9 (BTA) - Ombudsman Maya Manolova has referred to the Constitutional Court a ban for retired persons to work as civil servants. The changes to the Civil Service Act ban pensioners from holding jobs in the public service, and thousands are about to be dismissed....
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Bulgarian Government Supports Hauliers' Demands for Amendmentsto EU Mobility Package
January 8 (BTA) - The Bulgarian government fully supports road hauliers' demands for amendments to the EU Mobility Package 1, which will be put to the vote this week in the European Parliament Committee on Transport and Tourism. The issue was discussed at a meeting between Prime ...
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Transport Minister Zhelyazkov Tells BNT Case with Libyan Tanker Private Lawsuit
January 8 (BTA) - The dispute over the Lybian tanker "Badr" is a private lawsuit, which has managed to acquire a diplomatic hue, which makes it appropriate to discuss, Transport Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov told Bulgarian National Television's morning show on Tuesday.
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Fuel Traders Ready to Protest Against New Regulative Act
January 7 (BTA) - The National Association of Fuel Traders and Carriers is ready to organize national protests against the implementation of the Act on Administrative Regulation of Economic Activities related to Oil and Petroleum Products, member of the association's Boar...
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President Radev: Fighter Jet Selection Procedure Has Been Mishandled
January 6 (BTA) - The procedure for acquiring fighter jets for the Bulgarian Air Force has been mishandled, President Rumen Radev told the media on Sunday. Discussing the government's apparent preference for F-16 aircraft, Radev, who is also Supreme Commander-in-Chief of...
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PM Borissov Orders Three Dismissals over Misstart of System for Electronic Road Vignettes
January 5 (BTA) - Two senior officials in the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) and an advisor of the Regional Development and Public Works Minister have been dismissed on an order of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, over the failed start of the system for electronic road vi...
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