Press Review

Members of the knife tel 112
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The parliamentary majority is split because of changes in the law for the Ministry. Ideas behind the reform of the Deputy Prime Tsvetan Tsvetanov stood only MPs from GERD and Attack. Yane Yanev and his group left the Chamber as CSV promised six months of government tolerance. Blue Coalition, the BSP and the MRF jumped against the changes. However, amendments passed on first reading. Deputies also agreed to reimburse the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, which is now to „Criminal Police“. The unit will be directly subordinate to the leadership of the Ministry. And create other new departments – Civil Protection, National System 112, which passes to the Ministry. „Changes to revert back MIA, MIA jumped former boss Mikhail Mikov.
„Bulgarian society prefers to watch“ Pearl „and“ Densing Stars „rather than thinking about national security,“ said the former Minister of Emergency Situations Emel Etem the DPS.

Stanishev was ready to win the „battle leadership of the Congress
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Socialists expect dramatic Congress on Sunday. Sergey Stanishev coming to believe that he alone will cause „a leadership battle, because he was confident of the support of more than half the delegates.
At no point agenda for election of the President, but Stanishev may decide to surprise your opponents, because they were united only in their desire to remove it, but do not reach agreement on his successor.
From the circle of the leader estimated that the opposing camp has one-third of the delegates – the structures around Rumen Ovcharov and Rumen Petkov, the left-wing BSP, Tatyana Doncheva, which so far only publicly declared candidate for first place in the party. Socialists put in custom among the contenders for the post Yanaki Stoilov and Mladen Cherveniakov.
The pace of the Congress will depend on the undecided, who are not in either of the camps, said deputy and estimated that they were about 15 percent of the delegates. According to him, now they are the most courted and Ovcharov and Stanishev, and Petkov, for whom the „Positano“ Wear rumor that makes speak with contempt of authority, which fell in the lists of members or have lost their jobs after the Socialist Party fell from power. Many say that undecided will choose Stanishev after stand behind other strong pieces – long organizational secretary Dabov Dimitar and Kostadin Paskalev. In an interview with „24 Hours“ Oak said he now supports Stanishev, but made clear that he would not stand behind his every proposal of the Executive Bureau. Held the same position and Paskalev who can influence the party’s ranks. To the „Diary“ he said changing leader is not currently the best for the BSP. According to last Paskalev camps will agree on the distribution of power in the next leadership of the BSP.
The expected move by opponents of Stanishev is to ask for an extraordinary congress in the spring, which to be elected new leader of the BSP, but this required two-thirds vote of delegates they have, commented socialists.

Stanishev, Pirin and Doncheva greatest confidence in the BSP
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Sergey Stanishev, Georgi Pirinski and Tatyana Doncheva have the highest public support in the BSP and society. This study shows NCPOS held from 10 to 15 October this year. Stanishev is favored by 21 percent of Bulgarians and 23% of Pirin. Tatyana Doncheva outstrips both, with support from 33 percent. Almost the same support as Stanishev and Pirin and the leader of a leftist BSP Yanaki Stoilov, who is favored by 21 percent of Bulgarians.
The survey results reported and among supporters of the BSP, according to the highest party support from more than 80% have again Stanishev and Pirinski, while in purely party vote Tatyana Doncheva is 70%. The study notes that the candidate for mayor of Sofia, Georgi Kadiev must work to accumulate more popularity. „Kadiev has the potential to change the ratings, has earned the trust of almost half of red voters“, note from NCPOS.

Ten parties will compete for mayor of Sofia
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Ten were a contestant who had enrolled in the partial elections for mayor of the capital, it became clear yesterday by a statement of the President of the Municipal Election Commission Zulcheva Diana. Among them, unless all parliamentary political forces there and in small groups. Yesterday evening completed the registration of all wishing to participate in local organizations and vote initiative committees.
Yet no one per candidate mayor, although major parties, GERB and BSP, have already announced their candidates. The deadline for registration is 20 October. So far only registered candidates for mayors of the region „Ilinden“, where partial elections are on October 24. Currently known candidates in Sofia are gradonachalnitsi Yordanka Fandakova from GERB, BSP, Georgi Kadiev, Ivan Antikadzhiev the Union of Free Democrats and arch. Pavel Panov from CSV.

Sofia is wondering how to revise contracts for 88 million euros
Dnevnik

The municipality tried to arrange higher penalties for road crossings
Sofia municipality will try to improve conditions in signed contracts for 88 million for construction of five intersections on two levels. The aim is to increase the penalty to ensure quality and timely implementation. The decision was taken yesterday by the city council as part of the report, which was allowed to enter into a loan agreement with the European Investment Bank. The loan is for 44 million and would cover half the cost of intersections. The remaining money must be provided by the municipality. „We will seek and support the government,“ said Acting mayor Minko said. Contracts with GBS-Infrastructure construction „(44 million),“ Trace Group „(8 million) and Balkanstroy (38 million). The municipality has sent a notice in the register of public procurement for the contract with GBS, which was signed in May, while the mayor was still Boyko Borisov. Five months later, the counselors decided to review the contract on the grounds that since they are standard, do not give sufficient assurance that construction will be completed in time. „We will try to increase the penalties for delays and faulty execution,“ said Orlin Alexiev (GERD). He added that the maximum penalty is now the standard of 10% of the value of the contract. „Contracts allow for unilateral termination by the municipality before beginning construction. I offered to use it to negotiate better terms, „said Zhelyo Boichev and the BSP. The reason for the sudden revision dispute in two days before the Budget Committee, where opposition asked if the guarantee that intersections will not repeat the problem with the ring road. When the repair paid by the state, builder GBS raise the price three times and it hit a record 23 million leva per kilometer road. The three companies failed yesterday to comment on whether it would agree to various conditions. Not explained by the municipality who had signed contracts. Generally this is done by the mayor, if he is on vacation – by an alternate.

BSP raised the young lady mayor of Vratsa
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Spokesperson of the Municipal Party Committee of the Socialist Party in Vratsa Tsvetelina Damyanovska is left candidate for mayor. The vote is on Nov. 15. 32-year old boss of the territorial division of the Bulgarian Posts has been preferred by the municipal plenum between 5 nominations, among them was former sotsdeputat and regional party boss Dimitar GANDEV. However, he previously refused to enter into the battle for the job, stripped of the social Minister Totyo Mladenov, explained comrades. Last Friday was the nomination of Damyanovska agreed with Sergey Stanishev. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of the BSP, MA in economics and law. Married with one child.

Sofia will be raising the property taxes
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Sofia’s Board approved a loan of 43.5 million from EIB for elevator
Sofia Municipality not to raise local taxes for next year. It told reporters Minko Gerdzhikov temporary acting mayor of Sofia, commenting yesterday approved the government amendments to the Law on local taxes and fees. They allow the municipalities, which so early next year to increase the maximum threshold for property tax and tax consideration deals.
Currently local authorities can determine the rate ranges from 1 to 2 per thousand of valuation for the property, next year the upper limit rises to 2,5 per thousand. The decision allows the government to deal with the local property tax cap to be lifted from 2.6% to 3% of the amount. The increase in these charges will be after the decision of the municipal council.
Minko Gerdzhikov announced that the mayors urge the government to take measures to increase tax collection at the national level. According to him, this could become an ordinance or other change in legislation which will allow local authorities to refuse to perform outstanding service to taxpayers. He noted that there are countries where for delinquent payers to provide very stiff penalties, including imprisonment.
Meanwhile, Sofia Municipal Council (SMC) has approved the proposal of Gerdjikov requests for loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) amounted to 43.5 million for projects in elevator construction and reconstruction of the capital’s boulevards. The total amount of conversion was 88.1 million, the municipality is obliged to pay 44.6 million euros from its own funds. The deadline for returning the loan is 25 years old and 4-year grace period. It is envisaged that the loan be used to build roads on two levels and partial reconstruction of the boulevard Ivan Geshov, Peyo Yavorov, Dragan Tsankov, Mihaylovski „and others. Already selected three companies that will be the executors of large infrastructure projects. These are Glavbolgarstroy, „Balkan Story“ and „Trace Group.

District Commission will provide fields for rent
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Parliament yesterday adopted on first reading amendments to the Law on Ownership and Use of agricultural lands by the MPs of GERD Desislava Taneva Stoyan Gyuzelev and Dimitar Avramov. The purpose of the bill is improving the legal regime for allocation of use of agricultural land. It is envisaged that an agreement on agricultural land use can be guided by a committee appointed by order of the Director of the Regional Directorate for Agriculture and not the mayor of the municipality, as usual. The composition of the committee will also include representatives of local government and representatives of the Regional Directorate for Agriculture. Thus the action on an agreement to use, and failing agreement will be done primarily with the participation of officials of the structures of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food indicating importers. They are motivated by the fact that information owners and users of agricultural land is located in agriculture at the municipal offices, and that creates a big opportunity for making the right operational decisions in the allocation of usage. Optimize and deadlines for concluding the agreements, taking into account the agro-technical terms.

Promotion of Electronic Banking „DSK Direct“
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DSK Bank offers its customers, users of the electronic banking system DSK Direct, interest discount for loans for current consumption, and residential mortgage loans, announced by the treasury managed by Violina Marinova. Inclusion in Program Partners Bank ( credit for current consumption), but by 05.10.2009g. already in the program Cozy DSK (for residential and mortgage loans), provide preferential interest rate on the loan desired.
The platform for electronic banking DSK Direct DSK Bank enables clients through specific option to waive receipt of paper statements. The granting of this option is the manifestation of socially and environmentally oriented activities of the institution that is increasingly turning its corporate social responsibility in a measure of dignity to the business.

Brussels clapped his hands in banks
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The maximum penalty tax for early return credit is 1%
Between 0,5 and 1% of the value of the loan would be criminal charge, the customer must pay the Bank on early repayment of the loan. This provides the EU directive, which must be implemented in the Bulgarian legislation no later than May 10, 2010, announced yesterday Krusty Preslav, the expert from the Office of the Commissioner for Consumer Protection Meglena Kuneva.
The amount of the penalty fee will be determined by how much time remains until the end of the contract for payment of the loan. For example, if the client wants to repay the loan early, but it remains more than 1 year from the end of the agreed period, then he must pay the bank less than one percent of the amount of credit repaid early. If the remaining period does not exceed 1 year, the penalty fee amounting to 0.5%, says evrodirektivata.
If the new rules have been introduced in our country, the commission will initiate a procedure against Bulgaria and even may provide financial penalties explained Preslav. The document obliges banks to provide clear, accurate and understandable information about the terms of loans they offer. Also there should be no hidden fees for various financial services offered vaults. The new directive further provides commercial banks to provide their customers with comparable data, so they can verify whether the conditions offered by the institution are best for them or to choose another vault. Preslav explained that reliance on bank staff for withdrawing loan is not always the right decision. The reason is that employees often offer terms that are best for the profit of the bank, but not for the consumer, he explained.

State enters into BTC
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State to have its man in the management of BTC, asked Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov. He has lodged a proposal with a letter to Finance Minister Simeon Diankov. The request is to be appointed as representative of the State Board at the BTC. That chief, however, may not be broadcast by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, as it sets policy for electronic communications. The golden share will remain in the country, announced the establishment. It will be held at least until completion of the case brought by telecom for invalidating the veto of the State in the Governing Board of the company. The period of preference shares expired in June 2009 and the statutes of the company will be equated with ordinary shares and BTC (now Vivakom) is entitled to buy it. But this is only valid if all the conditions in the BTC privatization contract, reminded by the transport department. But the state has a claim to the owners of telecom for outstanding commitments under the program for employment. Moreover, in the case and pending arbitration in Paris for 80 euros, which wants its coffers by BTC. Under contract to make it 10% of the excess over 300 million in resale. BTC was owned by AIG for 1,1 billion euro. Detention of golden share will allow the state to continue to participate in the operational work of the BTC.

Bulgarian furniture sales has dropped by 30%
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In the second quarter of 2009 companies in the furniture industry have realized a 30% lower sales volume over the same period a year earlier. Manufacturing subsector in prices in 2005 was less by 36% compared to the same period in 2008 observed a serious decline in imports by 36.3 percent in the second quarter. The decline was about half of nearly 25%. The rate of decrease in exports is also increasing – 28.3% in the second quarter versus 21% in the first. Imports fell by nearly one-third faster than exports, leading to a positive foreign trade. Over half, however, the surplus fell by 30%.

Purchases of companies are in a pause
Dnevnik

The market mergers and acquisitions in Bulgaria is almost blocked, since many owners of companies do not yet have a clear and sober assessment of the state of their business during the crisis. To change this, you will have many companies to restructure and change their business model. It told Dnevnik investors and advisors a few days before the second conference on mergers and acquisitions in Bulgaria and the region, organized by the Capital newspaper on 20 October. It will participate as investment funds Bancroft and Rothschild (more on www. Capital.bg / MAconference) However, the segment is not fully and languid movement is felt even among funds that provide equity financing.
Calculations show the industry that funds that are available now for Bulgaria and Romania are at least 1 billion. There are businesses for sale, but the transactions are blocked because of many owners of companies believe that the difficult vrechena will pass quickly, and their business will again take over as before the crisis. This leads them to keep high prices for their shares, which also restricts acquisitions.

The state wants its own man in BTC
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The state will retain „golden“ share in their BTC, which recently changed its name to Vivakom, and will ask a representative to the management of telecom, announced yesterday by the transport ministry. Minister Alexander Tsvetkov suggested in a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Simeon Diankov send out the relevant person as he may by the transport department. Detention of preference shares would even allow the state to continue to participate in the operational work of the company.
According to the contract between shareholders this year telco acquired the right to redeem the participation of the state. This was however denied by the previous government and BTC leads case.
Meanwhile, blue adviser in Sofia Villas Lilkov is threatened that he would submit a proposal to city council base stations for mobile operators who are on kindergartens and schools to be removed forcibly. E Sofia mayor Minko Gerdjikov by 12 October, in which the operators how to write his antennae and what are hygienic and safety requirements for safety responsibility. However, the companies requested more time to respond. Placing of 1400 base stations for mobile operators in Sofia was not consistent with the municipality, said Lilkov.