Record-high expenses in 2017 state budget is Capital daily’s main headline on Thursday. The Bulgarian authorities are planning again huge budget deficit, in order to co-finance EU projects. The money allotted to the state administration is to increase with EUR 200 million next year, the newspaper specifies. The Bulgarian Ministry of Interior and Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defense are to spend most money from next year’s state budget, Trud daily informs. The government decided that 1.2 million Bulgarian pensioners will receive EUR 20 Christmas bonus to their December pensions, Standard daily writes.
Fear of integration or integration of fear, Trud daily writes on its first pages on Thursday. What is the point of calling someone Roma instead of Gypsy, if we continue to treat that person in a gypsy manner, author Miroslav Murdzhov asks on occasion of the massive wave of discontent from the plans of Bulgaria’s authorities to allot scholarships to the tune of EUR 30 per month to Bulgarian pupils of Roma origin. The only way to integrate those Bulgarian citizens is to offer them adequate education, the author of the article summarizes.
2.2 million of the Bulgarian people live below the poverty line, the Dnevnik newspaper writes on occasion of the latest analysis of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria. CITUB estimates that at least three quarters of the Bulgarian families live in deprivation, Dnevnik daily informs. Sega accentuates on the fact that the number of employees with low salaries (who receive between EUR 249 and 357 per month) increased with 674,000.
Law is not the most-desired profession anymore, Professor Sasho Penov, Dean of the law faculty at Saint Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia told Trud daily. Now students prefer to study psychology, sociology and English philology, Professor Penov says. Over 6,500 young Bulgarians choose to study abroad, Monitor daily informs. According to consultants, the competition for English universities will be severe.
German company interested in Bankya’s public bath, Standard daily informs on its first pages. We are to sign a concession contract for the mineral baths in Bankya municipality, director of Tourist Service Municipal Enterprise Ivo Marinov announced. Currently, the enterprise is negotiating with a German pension company, which is planning to use the public bath on concession in the next 35 years and turn it into spa center. Part of the building will be turned into a hotel.
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