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Standard daily informs on Thursday that Bulgaria’s hopes to see its nominee in the position of the next Un Secretary General were dashed. Former Portuguese Premier Antonio Guterres is set to become the next UN Secretary General. Kristalina Georgieva and Bulgaria’s former nominee Irina Bokova remained outside the top three. Mr Guterres will be officially elected on Thursday, Standard further informs. 24 Chassa daily informs on its first pages that the next UN Secretary General is neither a woman, nor a candidate from Eastern Europe. Irina Bokova placed three positions ahead of Kristalina Georgieva, the newspaper further adds. Bokova and Georgieva were vetoed by permanent members of the UN Security Council. Antonio Guterres was the only candidate who was not vetoed during the voting and is most likely to get the UN top job, Trud daily informs.

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defense has suspended the public procurement order for new and repaired engines of the old Soviet fighter jets MIG-29 and announced that it would negotiate directly with the participants in that procedure, documents published on the official web site of the ministry show. The tender was replaced by direct negotiations, after it became clear that the only participant that was approved to fulfill that order is incapable of doing that job on time and demanded an extra EUR 6.5 million, Capital daily informs on its first pages on Thursday.


Each year nearly 300 people kill or wound other people severely on Bulgaria’s roads and a day after the accident they already walk freely in the streets, Telegraph informs. The trials against those Bulgarians last an average of 1.5 years and most sentences are up to two years of imprisonment. Although the state prosecution always insists that those people should be arrested, the court usually orders house arrest. As a result, most culprits leave Bulgaria.

On October 16 a Bulgarian pilot will land in Sofia the world’s largest passenger plane-Airbus A 380. Lufthansa Technik is to build its biggest hangar on the Balkans on Sofia Airport. It should be ready by the summer of 2017, in order to service the planes during the summer and winter season. The German company stepped in Bulgaria in 2008 and in 2012 it expanded the capacity of the hangar in Sofia. The new investment is to the tune of EUR 25 million. It will spend an extra EUR 5 million to train airline technicians. The Bulgarian subsidiary of the German company is the biggest one outside Germany, CEO of Lufthansa Technik- Sofia Daniel Hoffmann announced, 24 Chassa daily informs.

English version: Kostadin Atanasov




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