PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Aug 6
SOFIA, Aug 6 (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.
-- Bulgarian government has tasked a working group with proposing legislative and administrative solutions to 10 administrative barriers to investment by January (Trud, 24 Chasa, Sega, Monitor, Telegraf).
-- A company, owned by a Bulgarian national, bought Serbia's bankrupt brewery Niska pivara for 1.08 million euros ($1.18 million), a Niska pivara representative was quoted as saying in Serbian media (Capital daily, Trud).
-- Serbian state-owned energy utility EPS will cut power to local glass maker Srpska Fabrika Stakla (SFS) as of September 1 over unpaid electricity bills. Paracin-based SFS was taken over in 2012 by international group Glass Industry, affiliated with Bulgarian businessman Tsvetan Vassilev, the main owner of collapsed Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) (Trud, Monitor, Telegraf).
-- Some 5,000 Bulgarian beekeepers will receive a total of 3.5 million levs ($1.95 million) under the "de minimis" aid scheme, the State Fund Agriculture said. Under the same scheme, livestock farmers have already been paid over 20 million levs (Standart, Monitor, Telegraf).
STANDART - State-owned thermal power plant Maritsa Iztok 2 posted a net loss of 28.6 million levs in the first half of the year against a profit of 1.4 million levs in the first six months of 2014, the company said
-- Low-cost carrier Wizz Air will launch flights from Sofia to four new destinations - Alicante, Bristol, Hamburg (Lubeck) and Oslo, in March 2016, the company said. Last month, Wizz Air launched five new flights from Sofia to Bari, Cologne, Geneva, Naples, and Munich (Memmingen) (Trud, Capital daily, Standart, Telegraf). ($1 = 1.7979 leva) ($1 = 0.9163 euros)
