Online payment of traffic ticket fines and payment orders will be introduced as of next month, Sega newspaper writes.The Interior Ministry is launching another 34 e-services. However, most people will not have access to them, as they will require an electronic signature.

Public discussion of draft changes to the Tourism Act will be extended by two more weeks, the 24 Chassa writes. The deadline is being extended in an attempt to find a balance in the proposals and finalize some of the texts, connected with tourist camping – putting up tents, caravans or campers on the entire territory of the country, outside camping areas.

Refugees do not want to attend state-financed Bulgarian language courses, National Employment data show, as quoted by Novinar. In 2015 the state allocated 442,000 Leva for training and employment programmes for refugees in this country. However, refugees have no motivation to register at job centres; in 2015 the state provided jobs to only 11 people and helped another 5 find employment.

Bulgarian machines and auto parts exports have been going up, Capital Daily writes. EU markets account for the bulk of the foreign trade increase last year, with China taking Russia’s place and asserting itself as the second most important market outside the EU, data indicate.

The Bulgarian Food Agency stopped 22 tons of apples and more than 1 ton of vegetables at the border with Macedonia and Greece, 24 Chassa writes. Widespread inspections were launched of imported fruit and vegetables at checkpoints along Bulgaria’s border with Greece and Macedonia to prevent the entry into the country of low quality fruit and vegetables and produce unfit for consumption.

Russian tractors and combine harvesters are making a comeback in Bulgaria, after the meeting Tsvetan Dimitrov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food had in Sofia with Evgeniy Korchevoy, Director General of the Russian Association of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Rosagromash, Zemya newspaper writes. The Russian company stated its intention to open an office in this country to demonstrate latest-generation Russian technology.

English: Milena Daynova