PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Aug 16
SOFIA, Aug 16 (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.
-- Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov ordered two of his cabinet ministers - Regional Minister Nikolay Nankov and Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski, to find a way to carry out bridge repairs across the Balkan country simultaneously rather than one at a time. Borissov said that 130 million are needed for bridges, trestles and viaducts in poor condition, adding some of them had not been repaired in decades (Trud, 24 Chasa, Standart, Monitor)
-- Bulgarian government decided that the poverty line in the Black Sea state would be 348 levs ($202.57) in 2019, up from 321 levs this year. The poverty line is used as a benchmark in the formulation of social policy in the field of income and living standards (Trud, 24 Chasa, Standart)
-- Some 20 tonnes of cannabis have been found in a police operation against drug production and distribution in the southwestern town of Petrich near the border with Greece, Border Police Director Svetlan Kichikov said (Standart, Monitor)
-- Bulgaria's commercial register users could again make checks by national identity number, offcials said. A major IT failure has blocked access to the register since August 10 (Standart, Monitor) ($1 = 1.7179 leva)
