PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - June 5
SOFIA, June 5 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Friday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- Bulgaria will try to sell some of its Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets when the US-made F-16s the country is acquiring in a $1.2billion deal arrive, Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov said (Trud, Monitor)
-- Bulgaria's government has proposed a set of financial relief measures in support of air carriers which have been strongly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The measures include cutting airport parking fees at Sofia Airport by 70% for a period of six months for all carriers flying to and from the Bulgarian capital, eight-month postponement of payment of fees for air navigation services in the zones of the country's airports for all carriers, as well as delaying payments of airport concession fees due for 2020 (24 Chasa, Trud)
-- Teacher-pupil ratios in Bulgaria were close to the average for the European Union, according for figures for 2018 published by EU statistics agency Eurostat (Monitor, Trud)
