PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Dec 17
SOFIA, Dec 17 (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 parliament approved constitutional changes aimed at overhauling the judiciary. The weakening of the initial proposals prompted the justice minister to resign and forced one of the parties of the junior coalition partner of the government to withdraw its support. (Trud, 24 Chasa, Capital Daily, Standart)
-- Prime Minister Boiko Borisov nominated Ekaterina Zaharieva, an advisor to the president and former minister in interim governments, for the post of justice minister. Part of the political parties that support the government do not approve of the nomination, saying she is not experienced enough for the job. (24 Chasa, Trud, Monitor, Capital Daily, Standart)
-- The government has set up a working group to come up with a plan for a possible restart of plans to build a new nuclear Westinghouse reactor at the site of its Kozloduy nuclear power plant with the financing of a Chinese investor, deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev said. (Trud, 24 chasa, Sega, Monitor, Standart, Duma)
