PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Oct 19

SOFIA, Oct 19 (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.

-- Bulgaria does not plan to borrow funds or extend state guarantees for new investment projects in 2018, the government said. (24 Chasa, Trud)

CAPITAL DAILY - The financial wealth of households increased by 5.9 billion levs ($3.56 billion) in the past 12 months, reaching 73 billion levs, economic think-tank Industry Watch said.

-- The government approved changes in the way salaries of high-level officials are calculated, allowing to double the monthly pay of deputy ministers and the heads of the political cabinets at the ministries. (Capital Daily, Duma, Sega, Trud)

-- The parliament rejected plans to introduce an absolute ten-year statute of limitation for private debtors. (24 Chasa, Trud, Standart, Capital Daily) ($1 = 1.6581 leva)

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