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The cover story of the Capital weekly headlined, "It Is High Time for Update of This Country," says that the government has set itself the task of speedy digitization of Bulgaria already in the cabinet's first year in office. One of the reports presents the newly-set up Ministry of e-Government and has an interview with its head, Bozhidar Bozhanov. Asked what of the many improvements are expected to be realistically ready on January 1, 2023, Bozhanov lists electronic identification, electronic prescriptions, electronic medical referrals and records, and an end to all administrative certificates, rubber-stamped documents, and other similar paper slips. The main player in the digitization will be Information Services AD.
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Sega runs a highly critical signed commentary on the performance of the government so far. The author of the article argues that over the past weeks the government "has been jumping according to an alien agenda" and that the new power holders cannot explain the reforms it plans to implement.
In a Trud interview political analyst Stoicho Stoev says that the power holders are only creating the impression of doing a lot of work.
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The official ceremony where Galina Zaharova officially took up the post of president of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) is given prominent coverage in Friday's press. Zaharova, who was elected to the post on January 14 in a unanimous vote of the members of the Supreme Judicial Council, is the first woman to head the SCC.
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Troud has a page-long report which sets out why the suggested closure of the specialized courts is based on "untruths".
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Troud prints part two of a serialized report which claims to identify the people with whom Interior Minister Boiko Rashkov needs "to settle the score".
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A report in Monitor says that after two years of swimming in online schooling, the life-jacket it provided has burst. The author argues that a new global crisis is looming: a pandemic of the uneducated.
LIST OF 19 PERSONS SUSPECTED FOR SERIOUS CRIMES
In a story capped "Google Becomes Bulgaria's New Interior Minister," Standartnews.com reports on how the list of 19 persons suspected for grave crimes and corruption which Prime Minister Kiril Petkov handed over to the prosecuting magistracy on Wednesday, was compiled. On Wednesday Petkov and the Chief of his Political Cabinet, Lena Borislavova, had been asked to appear before the Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office to provide information about a list in their possession naming alleged perpetrators of serious criminal and economic offences. The article in Standartnews.com quotes Borislavova as saying that the PM's "arrest list" was made based on publications that came up in a Google search. Approached to explain while the publications in question are solely from certain media, Borislavova is quoted as saying "this is what Google yielded".
The reports on the topic in Thursdays' press write that Interior Minister Boiko Rashkov said that the prosecuting magistracy had not yet delivered the list to his Ministry. "It may be the case that the prosecuting magistracy wants to add some names to the list, for example, from the former power holders," Rashkov is quoted is saying.
The Capital weekly has the questions and backgrounds about seven cases which Petkov has raised with Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev and which the report describes as "some of the most blatant cases of inaction on the part of the prosecuting magistracy".
In a related report capped, "Geshev v. Continue the Change: The Resistance of the Captured State," Capital says that the prosecuting magistracy and the anti-corruption commission have entered the stage of an open confrontation with the government over the latter's insistence on intensifying the fight against corruption. The report says that the new power holders seem adamant that they will not make any concessions in respect of the reform of the judiciary and the work of the anti-corruption commission.
24 Chassa interviews Geshev who says that he has no worries and that in the past two years he has been the most frequently checked person working for the State. Geshev describes as "offending for Bulgaria as a nation" the fact that a resignation of the prosecutor general is being pushed through with "newspaper clippings". The interviewee says that this time round he expects that the demand for his removal from the post will be underpinned by legal, and not politically-motivated, reasoning. He again reiterates his opinion that "since the mafia and the oligarchs are attacking him so fiercely" the prosecuting magistracy is doing its job properly.
ECONOMY
The passage of the 2022 state budget bill on first reading debate is reported in detail by all newspapers and online news media. One of the most quoted descriptions of the budget is that of Finance Minister Assen Vassilev who said this a budget that will put an end to the "poverty policy-making," that is of strict financial discipline.
Mediapool.bg says that at the centre of the clash during the seven-hour non-stop debate on the budget was a dispute of the philosophy of the budget policy, in particular whether to continue the strict financial discipline that has been maintained in the past 25 years, or to opt for moderate budget deficits and use the resources for investment in economic growth.
A report on the 2022 draft budget in Sega says that the measures of the government against the shocking price hikes are chaotic and belated.
Trud leads with a story which says that financial experts have rejected the economic forecasts of the government underpinning the 2022 budget and instead expect a twice higher than projected inflation and a weak economy in 2022.
24 Chassa has an infographic of the draft 2022 budget.
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All of Friday newspapers and online news outlets report on the election of the new head of the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, Stanislav Todorov, and his expectation that the price of electricity for household consumers will not go up after the current moratorium is lifted.
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The leading report in 24 Chassa says that petrol and diesel are expected to reach three leva per litre, which the daily says has returned the interest in hybrid cars.
The newspaper interviews the head of the Sofia Commodity Exchange Vassil Simov who says that speaking about "exchange" prices of electricity and natural gas is misleading when they are determined on a trading platform owned by the state - this he says is unheard of in the world.
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Citing data of the central bank, Troud and Telegraph report that the number of people with bank deposits of more than one million leva has decreased by 128 to 1,052 in December 2021 from a year earlier.
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Douma interviews National Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva on the topic of debt-collection companies.
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In an interview to Monitor, the head of the National Vine-growing and Wine-making Chamber, Yordan Chorbardjiski, says that ten million of illegally distilled hard liquor rakiya are produced in this country per year. The interviewee expects that alcoholic beverages will appreciate by an average of 20 per cent this year.
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The leading report in Monitor warns against fake travel agents which are taking advantage of the coronavirus restrictions to mislead customers.
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Monitor says that the tourist chamber in the Black Sea city of Bourgas urges for having a unified COVID protocol for foreign holiday makers in the coming summer season.
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In its leading report Telegraph writes that the problem of parking spaces in many cities has pushed up the price of garages to almost that of an apartment. ZH//
ZH0034ES.101
101 PRESS REVIEW
Press
-
Review
Sofia, February 11 (BTA) -
HOME SCENE
The cover story of the Capital weekly headlined, "It Is High Time for Update of This Country," says that the government has set itself the task of speedy digitization of Bulgaria already in the cabinet's first year in office. One of the reports presents the newly-set up Ministry of e-Government and has an interview with its head, Bozhidar Bozhanov. Asked what of the many improvements are expected to be realistically ready on January 1, 2023, Bozhanov lists electronic identification, electronic prescriptions, electronic medical referrals and records, and an end to all administrative certificates, rubber-stamped documents, and other similar paper slips. The main player in the digitization will be Information Services AD.
* * *
Sega runs a highly critical signed commentary on the performance of the government so far. The author of the article argues that over the past weeks the government "has been jumping according to an alien agenda" and that the new power holders cannot explain the reforms it plans to implement.
In a Trud interview political analyst Stoicho Stoev says that the power holders are only creating the impression of doing a lot of work.
* * *
The official ceremony where Galina Zaharova officially took up the post of president of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) is given prominent coverage in Friday's press. Zaharova, who was elected to the post on January 14 in a unanimous vote of the members of the Supreme Judicial Council, is the first woman to head the SCC.
* * *
Troud has a page-long report which sets out why the suggested closure of the specialized courts is based on "untruths".
* * *
Troud prints part two of a serialized report which claims to identify the people with whom Interior Minister Boiko Rashkov needs "to settle the score".
* * *
A report in Monitor says that after two years of swimming in online schooling, the life-jacket it provided has burst. The author argues that a new global crisis is looming: a pandemic of the uneducated.
LIST OF 19 PERSONS SUSPECTED FOR SERIOUS CRIMES
In a story capped "Google Becomes Bulgaria's New Interior Minister," Standartnews.com reports on how the list of 19 persons suspected for grave crimes and corruption which Prime Minister Kiril Petkov handed over to the prosecuting magistracy on Wednesday, was compiled. On Wednesday Petkov and the Chief of his Political Cabinet, Lena Borislavova, had been asked to appear before the Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office to provide information about a list in their possession naming alleged perpetrators of serious criminal and economic offences. The article in Standartnews.com quotes Borislavova as saying that the PM's "arrest list" was made based on publications that came up in a Google search. Approached to explain while the publications in question are solely from certain media, Borislavova is quoted as saying "this is what Google yielded".
The reports on the topic in Thursdays' press write that Interior Minister Boiko Rashkov said that the prosecuting magistracy had not yet delivered the list to his Ministry. "It may be the case that the prosecuting magistracy wants to add some names to the list, for example, from the former power holders," Rashkov is quoted is saying.
The Capital weekly has the questions and backgrounds about seven cases which Petkov has raised with Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev and which the report describes as "some of the most blatant cases of inaction on the part of the prosecuting magistracy".
In a related report capped, "Geshev v. Continue the Change: The Resistance of the Captured State," Capital says that the prosecuting magistracy and the anti-corruption commission have entered the stage of an open confrontation with the government over the latter's insistence on intensifying the fight against corruption. The report says that the new power holders seem adamant that they will not make any concessions in respect of the reform of the judiciary and the work of the anti-corruption commission.
24 Chassa interviews Geshev who says that he has no worries and that in the past two years he has been the most frequently checked person working for the State. Geshev describes as "offending for Bulgaria as a nation" the fact that a resignation of the prosecutor general is being pushed through with "newspaper clippings". The interviewee says that this time round he expects that the demand for his removal from the post will be underpinned by legal, and not politically-motivated, reasoning. He again reiterates his opinion that "since the mafia and the oligarchs are attacking him so fiercely" the prosecuting magistracy is doing its job properly.
ECONOMY
The passage of the 2022 state budget bill on first reading debate is reported in detail by all newspapers and online news media. One of the most quoted descriptions of the budget is that of Finance Minister Assen Vassilev who said this a budget that will put an end to the "poverty policy-making," that is of strict financial discipline.
Mediapool.bg says that at the centre of the clash during the seven-hour non-stop debate on the budget was a dispute of the philosophy of the budget policy, in particular whether to continue the strict financial discipline that has been maintained in the past 25 years, or to opt for moderate budget deficits and use the resources for investment in economic growth.
A report on the 2022 draft budget in Sega says that the measures of the government against the shocking price hikes are chaotic and belated.
Trud leads with a story which says that financial experts have rejected the economic forecasts of the government underpinning the 2022 budget and instead expect a twice higher than projected inflation and a weak economy in 2022.
24 Chassa has an infographic of the draft 2022 budget.
* * *
All of Friday newspapers and online news outlets report on the election of the new head of the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, Stanislav Todorov, and his expectation that the price of electricity for household consumers will not go up after the current moratorium is lifted.
* * *
The leading report in 24 Chassa says that petrol and diesel are expected to reach three leva per litre, which the daily says has returned the interest in hybrid cars.
The newspaper interviews the head of the Sofia Commodity Exchange Vassil Simov who says that speaking about "exchange" prices of electricity and natural gas is misleading when they are determined on a trading platform owned by the state - this he says is unheard of in the world.
* * *
Citing data of the central bank, Troud and Telegraph report that the number of people with bank deposits of more than one million leva has decreased by 128 to 1,052 in December 2021 from a year earlier.
* * *
Douma interviews National Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva on the topic of debt-collection companies.
* * *
In an interview to Monitor, the head of the National Vine-growing and Wine-making Chamber, Yordan Chorbardjiski, says that ten million of illegally distilled hard liquor rakiya are produced in this country per year. The interviewee expects that alcoholic beverages will appreciate by an average of 20 per cent this year.
* * *
The leading report in Monitor warns against fake travel agents which are taking advantage of the coronavirus restrictions to mislead customers.
* * *
Monitor says that the tourist chamber in the Black Sea city of Bourgas urges for having a unified COVID protocol for foreign holiday makers in the coming summer season.
* * *
In its leading report Telegraph writes that the problem of parking spaces in many cities has pushed up the price of garages to almost that of an apartment. ZH//
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