PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - April 26
SOFIA, April 26 (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.
-- Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova, whose party is destined for opposition when the forthcoming coalition goverment of centre-right GERB and nationalist United Patriots, takes office, has described the coalition´s joint governance programme as a "serious retreat" from their election promises (Trud, Standart, Monitor, Sega)
-- Bulgaria is in no way looking for trouble with neighbouring Turkey, President Rumen Radev said following allegations that Turkey influenced the internal affairs of Bulgaria. Good neighbouring relations are based on important principles, and those are equal treatment, non-interference in foreign affairs, and mutual respect, Radev said (Trud, Standart, Monitor)
CAPITAL DAILY - Some 2.5 million Bulgarians, or nearly 35 percent of the population, live in poverty, the 2016 Eurostat poll on social trends and poverty indexes within the EU showed
-- A network for smuggling of migrants from Bulgaria to Romania through the Danube Bridge border checkpoint with the participation of a Bulgarian police officer was dismantled in a successful operation of the Bulgarian authorities (Trud, Sega, Monitor)
