Manol Peykov of CC-DB: BTA's Archive Is Treasure Trove for Bulgaria

Dimitrina Solakova, Marin Kolev

Manol Peykov MP of Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria in Parliament, Sofia, May 30, 2025 (BTA Photo/Minko Chernev)

Sofia,

30.05.2025 12:38

(BTA)

During the parliamentary debate on the report on BTA's activities and finances in 2024 here on Friday, Manol Peykov MP of Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) said that he is impressed by the BTA archive, which is a treasure trove for Bulgaria. The CC-DB parliamentary group would support the report, he added.

"In the words of BTA Director General Kiril Valchev, the archive was quite neglected and stored in various attics. Now, space has been organized for it in the former canteen, and they have not just relocated it but have dived into this archive and have started making sense of it," Peykov noted.

In his words, these small treasures are the source of funds that give BTA the opportunity to deploy this own resource and to raise, adequately or almost adequately, the salaries of its employees. "That is why Valchev deserves great praise. My opinion is that if 30% of the institutions worked in this way, we would be absolutely at the level of the leading European countries in terms of management," Peykov argued.

He went on to say that the Bulgarian News Agency is one of the few institutions about which only good words are said. "We did not hear one bad word. The way BTA is managed is exemplary, and what is amazing is that it manages within its own, State-given resources, which are not large, to perform miracles of bravery," Peykov told Parliament.

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