PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Nov 13

SOFIA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

-- The finance ministry has drafted a new law on Deposit Guarantee Fund, bringing its legislation in line with the EU rules to start paying guaranteed deposits seven days after the central bank establishes that a bank is unable to pay out deposits. (24 Chasa, Trud, Standart, Presa)

-- The new transport minister Ivailo Moskovski appointed Vladimir Vladimirov as a new chief executive of indebted state-rung railway operator BDZ. (24 Chasa, Standart, Presa)

-- The leader of ethnic Turkish MRF party warned the lawmakers to stop the attempts to ban the news broadcasts in Turkish language of the public TV channel to avoid ethnic tensions. (Standart, Trud)

PRESA - The European Commission is expected to unfreeze payments worth 800 million euros for environment programmes, sources familiar with the situation said.

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