PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - March 25
SOFIA, March 25 (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.
-- Bulgaria welcomes the European Union foreign ministers' decision to give the green light for starting the EU accession negotiation process with the Republic of North Macedonia and Albania, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said (24 Chasa, Trud, Monitor, Duma)
-- Bulgaria's regional development ministry said that it will re-allocate 40.4 million levs ($22.36 million) to the health ministry for the procurement of medical equipment and protective gear needed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (Monitor, Trud)
-- Bulgaria´s customs agency has given 294,000 surgical protective masks, confiscated from a would-be smuggler at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, to the Bulgarian Red Cross, the agency said. They were found when customs officers checked a lorry entering from neighboring Turkey (24 Chasa, Trud, Monitor)
($1 = 1.8069 leva)
