The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for its act of saving 48,000 Jews from Nazi death camps during World War II, 24 Hours writes. The proposal has been submitted in Oslo by Holocaust survivors.

About 1500 foreigners were granted Bulgarian citizenship for just one year, Telegraph reports. By tradition the largest number of Bulgarian passports have gone to nationals of Ukraine, Moldova and Russia, as well as of Macedonia.

Last year saw the use of one-day labor contracts for seasonal jobs in agriculture. Most of them are in viticulture, growing and picking cherries, raspberries and oil-yielding roses. More than 23,000 worked under one-day labor contracts inn 2016, Capital Daily specifies.

The Bulgarian Association for Plant Protection has demanded the criminalization of trade in banned agents for plant growing. Agents banned in EU come from Turkey, Serbia and Macedonia. Trud sounds the alert that in 2016 the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency intercepted six tons of such substances.

The Interior Ministry is planning to suggest alleviations for companies hiring persons who have been seriously hurt in road accidents. Incentives include lower social security payments and taxes, Monitor writes. The National Revenue loses close to 1 billion euro per annum for care of road accident victims. Only 10% of persons with disabilities in Bulgaria are employed.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city, has got no mayor in office. This is the leading headline in Standart. Mayor Ivan Totev has been removed from his post by the court of justice while an investigation is underway on charges of Public Procurement Act abuse.

„Taxes are unavoidable, fines are always avoidable’, reads a headline in Sega. If anybody is late paying 2.5 euro in tax, tax authorities will soon be pressing him to pay. However the problem with uncollected fines for road offences has been neglected for years. Uncollected fines currently amount to 1 billion euro.

Compiled by Miglena Ivanova