PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Nov 20
SOFIA, Nov 20 (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 head of Bulgarian Deposit Insurance Fund, Rosen Nikolov, has surprisingly resigned and the government appointed Radoslav Milenkov for the post. (24 Chasa, Trud, Capital Daily, Presa, Monitor, Duma, Standart)
-- The government decided to tap 500 million euro loans from the European Investment Bank to co-finance EU-backed projects through 2020. (24 Chasa, Trud, Capital daily, Monitor, Standart, Sega)
-- Leaders of the nationalist Patriotic Front threatened to withdraw their support for the centre-right coalition government over the appointment of deputy defence minister supported from an ethnic Turkish party. (24 Chasa, sega, Standart)
-- Deputies across the political spectrum have suggested that Bulgaria should hold an international competition to pick a foreigner to lead its central bank, after demanding the current central bank governor Ivan Iskrov to resign over the way the central bank handled the banking crisis with Corporate Commercial Bank. (24 Chasa, Capital daily, Trud)
-- Bulgaria will keep its flat fax rate of 10 percent next year, the parliament decided. (24 Chasa, Trud, Standart, Monitor, Sega, Capital Daily, Presa)
-- The energy regulator has revoked its decision, demanding a cut of at least 30 percent of the price at which the state power utility NEK is obliged to buy electricity from the Bulgarian thermal power plants, controlled by AES and Contour Globul, respectively. (Capital daily, Trud, 24 Chasa, Standart, Sega, Monitor)
