PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - May 19
SOFIA, May 19 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- Qatar is interested in investment in the Unit 7 of Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said, adding that an agreement had been signed with US Westinghouse on the supply of a reactor and that the Balkan country was seeking a strategic investor in the project (Standart, Sega, Trud, Presa).
-- Qatar is ready to invest in financial instruments issued by the Bulgarian Development Bank and the Bulgarian Deposit Insurance Fund (BDIF), thereby supporting the financing of the national program for the renovation of multi-family buildings and capitalizing the BDIF, the finance ministry said (Standart, Sega, Trud, Presa).
-- Economy Minister Bozhidar Lukarski presented investment opportunities in Bulgaria to Qatari counterpart Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani. The two ministers discussed opportunities for expanding bilateral economic cooperation and increasing bilateral trade (Standart, Trud, 24 Chasa, Presa).
-- A bomb has been found in a bus, owned by the Bulgarian transportation company Omega Group. All institutions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary have employed their efforts on the case and took fingerprints from the bus and the petrol container after the incident occurred on in Budapest (Standart, Trud, Presa, 24 Chasa).
