The lead story in today’s papers is the bill on the election code after the referendum resultsthat was submitted to parliament by National Ombudsman Maya Manolova and representatives of the referendum initiative committee. The “Initiative committee on the referendum initiated by Slavi’s Show” claims riots will break out if the referendum results are not acknowledged. Ombudsman Maya Manolova submitted a bill on introducing the majority voting system to parliament, Trud writes. According to Sega newspaper “the parties support a majority voting system in words, though not in deed.” The MPs say there is not enough time or analysis to retailor the election system in full according to the will of the people, the paper adds.
Major companies receive 50 million euro for energy efficiency, reads a headline carried by Capital Daily. With the opening of one of the few procedures for financing big enterprises with European funding, they will receive grants totaling 50 million euro under the Operational Programme “Innovation and Competitiveness” for improving their energy efficiency.
“Refugees sneak in during the changing of the border police between 6 and 7 AM, when the night patrol is handing the shift over, while the day shift is being briefed,” writes the Telegraph. Refugeesmugglersget 800-1,200 euro per person for trafficking them from Istanbul to Sofia.
Standart: Supreme Administrative Court blocks regulation on access to medical services via fingerprints, initiated by outgoing Health Minister Petar Moskov. The application of the system is terminated until the final court ruling.
Bulgaria will take part in 45 tourist expositions in 2017, writes Capital Daily. Next year the country will, for the first time, be presented at two exchanges in Russia, at a specialized skiing and snowboard exposition in London and at the China International Travel Mart (CITM), the largest professional travel mart in Asia.
The number of tourists of tourists coming to Bulgaria from Ukraine is up, Trud writes. More than 206,000 Ukrainian holidaymakers came to this country over the January-September 2016 period which is 10 percent more than over the same period of last year.
Prostitution in Bulgaria is down due to the replacement of byroads, previously used by prostitutes, with highways, reads the Institute for Regional and International Studies report “Prostitution in Bulgaria: Threats to Human Security”. Bulgarian prostitutes mostly go to practice their trade in Holland, Germany and Belgium. The average profile of this contingent in Bulgaria is girls aged 16 to 23 from socially vulnerable families, Trud writes.
Compiled by Miglena Ivanova
English version: Milena Daynova
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