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Unions: Bulgaria not ready to give up coal, needs to renegotiate RRP

published on 7/7/22 2:01 PM

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The part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), in which Bulgaria commits to giving up coal, must be revised, the president of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria Plamen Dimitrov told Nova News.

He said that he did not agree with his fellow trade unionist Dimitar Manolov of the Podkrepa Confederation of Labour that the plan was "harmful" to the country. But he was clear that "in the context of an energy crisis, when Germany reopens its coal plants, Bulgaria does not need to be acting more Catholic than the Pope. That is, there are provisions in the RRP that have not been properly negotiated and can and should be renegotiated," the trade unionist said.

Currently, lignite-fired power plants provide about 40% of the country's electricity.

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