Press Digest: Bulgaria - May 9
09/05/2017 08:05
SOFIA, May 9 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories
in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified
these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- A report of the ex-caretaker deputy Prime Minister
Denitsa Zlateva reveals a fatal delay in the preparation eight
months before Bulgaria officially to take the Presidency of the
Council of the European Union. The renovations of the two main
locations where the most of the forums and meetings of the
representatives of the EU Member states will be conducted are
stuck. The suitable hotels for hosting the delegations in Sofia
could be with less capacity, 300 people more are needed because
the staff of the public administration is not enough (Standart,
Duma)
-- Bulgaria will re-launch a tender for the concession of
Sofia Airport, Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski said. Last
month, the Balkan state's interim government cancelled the
tender to run and operate the airport, saying the plans to grant
concession rights for 35 years at the country's main airport
were not in the public interest (Sega, Capital daily)
-- The first legislation that the centre-right GERB party
will table in parliament will be to introduce a majoritarian
system for electing lawmakers, GERB's parliamentary group leader
Tsvetan Tsvetanov said (Sega, Trud, Standart, Monitor)
-- The salaries of Bulgarian teachers will be increased by
about 15 percent as of Sept. 1 2017, new Education Minister
Krasimir Valchev said, ading the ministry would carry out the
governance programme pledge of doubling teachers' salaries by
the end of the cabinet's four-year term (Standart, Duma)
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