PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - April 15
SOFIA, April 15 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- Prime Minister Boiko Borisov discussed diversification of Bulgaria's energy supplies with French President Francois Hollande, who said he would like to see French companies fully engaged in the process. Borisov once again said that Bulgaria, which currently relies almost entirely on Russian supplies to meet its gas needs, is keen on building a hub that could receive gas from various other sources (Trud, Standart).
-- Industrial establishments plan to cut investments by 30.4 percent on an annual basis in 2015 due to Bulgaria's EU funds poor absorption, the statistics office data showed (Trud, Standart, Sega).
-- Bulgarian authorities are searching nationwide for judge Rumyana Chenalova, who has been temporarily removed from office due to ongoing disciplinary proceedings against her. Chenalova failed to attend hearings and was not found at any of the addresses by the authorities (Standart, Sega, Monitor).
-- Tsvetan Vassilev, the majority owner of collapsed Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) said the central bank position on the Corpbank developments at is a clear sign of the financial authority's "strong dependencies" (Sega,
-- Bulgaria is the leader in Europe in terms of usage of doping-containing food supplements, Sports and Youth Minister Krasen Kralev said, adding that the ministry will be compiling a national strategy on doping counteraction (Meridian Match, Monitor).
-- Explosions rocked warehouses of the VMZ Sopot military plants near the village of Iganovo. No casualties were reported (Trud, Standart, Presa, Monitor, Sega)
