PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Dec 10
SOFIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- The European Union should not delay accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania due to the French proposal for new methodology of the accession negotiations, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said (24 Chasa, Trud, Monitor)
-- Bulgaria ranks 52nd with a score of 0.812 in the list of 189 countries on the Human Development Index, the Human Development Report for 2019 prepared by the United Nations Development Program showed. The independent report was prepared by leading global scientists and experts in the field of development and cooperation (Trud, Monitor)
-- Some 85% of businesses in Bulgaria polled by Eurobarometer saw corruption as widespread in the Balkan country, the European Commission said. The poll found that 51% of businesses in Bulgaria saw corruption as a problem, compared with an average in the European Union of 37% (Monitor, Trud)
-- The assets managed by Bulgarian insurance companies increased 8.2% year-on-year to 8.38 billion levs at the end of September, the central bank said (Trud, Monitor)
($1 = 1.7739 leva)
