PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - June 17
SOFIA, June 17 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Friday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- Bulgarian Patriarch Neofit has issued a statement condemning the upcoming Sofia Pride parade (a gay march) scheduled for Saturday (Trud, Standart)
-- Bulgaria's parliament gave the green light to the establishment of a state agency in charge of electronic government (Capital daily, Standart)
-- Bulgaria has proposed to Russia to manufacture jointly high-tech products and items with high added value that can be sold on the Russian market as well as in the EU and third countries, the economy ministry said
-- Bulgarian central bank said it would start publishing the exchange rates of foreign currencies against the Bulgarian lev by 6 p.m. local time on business days as of July 1, two hours later than the current deadline of 4 p.m. (Trud, Standart)
