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Ruling coalition discusses how to bring down prices

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“The price of petrol should fall but the big players are making a big profit at a time of crisis,” Nastimir Ananiev from the ruling We Continue the Change said for the BNR. Ananiev demanded that the Commission on Protection of Competition check “whether there is a cartel and why fuel prices are not falling”.

The socialists from the Bulgarian Socialist Party demanded that the council of the ruling coalition discuss a reduction of VAT on food and medicines. The other partners are against, and want the 20% VAT rate to remain, and that the government redistribute the money from the tax to assist the people affected.

The Ministry of Finance said they would announced a new package of anti-crisis measures in the sphere of energy by the end of the week.



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