PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - June 26
SOFIA, June 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.
-- A decision on how much to reduce state subsidies for political parties will be taken by the end of July, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said. Earlier this month the parliament approved the first reading of a bill reducing the subsidies for parties and coalitions that got more than 1% of the vote at the most recent election from 11 levs ($6.39) to 1 lev, but a second reading vote, scheduled for June 21, was postponed (24 Chasa, Trud, Monitor)
-- Bulgaria´s Education Ministry has made recommendations for corrections to new 10th grade history textbooks after a controversy over the treatment of the Balkan country´s communist era. The ministry reacted after criticism by historians that details of the character of the former communist regime were omitted from the textbooks and information about the victims was contradictory (Trud, Monitor)
-- A human trafficking group bust by Bulgarian law enforcement had been trafficking about 30 to 40 people a week through the country to Western Europe, prosecutors said (Monitor, Trud)
-- ($1 = 1.7210 leva)
