Press Digest: Bulgaria - Feb 28

Shelli Grup AD

28/02/2018 07:17

SOFIA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories 
in Bulgarian newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified 
these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.     
     
    -- Bulgaria's special criminal court was finally able to 
start proceedings in the trial related to the collapse of the 
Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) at the fourth attempt 
despite the absence of the main defendant - ex-Corpbank majority 
shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev (Trud, Monitor, Standart) 
    -- Almost 55 percent of the unemployed in Bulgaria were at 
risk of poverty after social transfers in 2016, according to 
Eurostat data from a survey of unemployed persons between the 
ages of 15-64 in the European Union (Standart, Trud) 
    -- More than 950 schools were closed due to the cold weather 
in the last few days, the education ministry said. Some 73 
schools were closed in the southern region of Kardzhali and 71 
schhols in the northern region of Pleven (Trud, 24 Chasa, Sega) 
 
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Keywords: BULGARIA PRESS/