PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Feb 15
SOFIA, Feb 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.
-- The average monthly wage in Bulgaria reached 1,012 levs ($547.09) in December, topping 1,000 levs for the first time ever, the statistics office data showed (Trud, Standart, Capital daily)
-- Nearly 1.5 million people at the age of between 15 and 64 are out of the labour force i.e. they are neither employed, nor registered as unemployed, the statistics office data showed (Standart, Trud, Duma)
-- Bulgaria may lose funding under two European projects financed by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism due to appeals of public procurement orders, interim Environment Minister Irina Kostova said (Standart, Monitor)
-- An inspection of the work of the defence ministry has uncovered irregularities in over 100 public procurement orders, interim Defence Minister Stefan Yanev said. The report on the public procurement orders where violations and bad practices have been discovered has been sent to the prosecutors (Trud, 24 Chasa, Monitor)
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