Trud daily informs on Wednesday that all Bulgarian hospitals are obliged as of November 1 to take fingerprints of their patients. The registration takes an average of 10 minutes in Bulgaria’s biggest hospitals. No queues were formed on the day of the official introduction of the system of fingerprint identification. Standart daily informs that if patients refuse to identify themselves with fingerprints upon entering hospitals, they have to pay for an alternative registration. The National Health Insurance Fund is yet to decide what type of alternative registration method to introduce.
Bulgaria’s cabinet is to spend over EUR 4 billion in two months, Capital daily writes on its first pages. The state budget surplus has reached EUR 1.72 by end October, which is 3.8% of the country’s forecasted gross domestic product. Therefore, the cabinet will have an extra EUR 4.15 billion to spend by the end of 2016, the newspaper further comments.
Sega daily informs on its first pages about the report of the Bulgarian National Bank related to the impressive growth of the bank profits in Bulgaria. The author of the article points out that taxes and commissions have become very important for Bulgaria’s commercial banks in times of decreasing interest rates and already form 20% of their revenues.
Director of the Center of Middle East Studies Mohd Abuasi told Trud daily that 15 imams from the Grand Mufti’s Office in Bulgaria preach radical Islam in the mosques and that terrorism threat comes from Bulgarian nationals, rather than from foreign citizens. According to Dr Abuasi who is an expert in topics related to Islamic Fundamentalism, the radicalization of the Bulgarian Muslims is supported by the newly-established DOST party which has close relations with the Turkish security services, Qatar and Saudi Arabia and was also supported by the Muslim Brothers, as well as by the salafi and wahabi movements in Bulgaria.
The printed media also report on the large-scale rescue operation of thirty four year-old Bulgarian Miroslav Kyosovski who went missing a week ago in the Balkan Mountain range. On Tuesday 24 Chassa daily announced that nearly 400 soldiers, policemen, rescuers and volunteers joined the operation. A military helicopter also took part at the operation. The rescue teams searched an area of over 50 square kilometers. On Wednesday mountain rescuers continue their search.
English version: Kostadin AtanasovWe firmly condemn Iran's continued missile strikes against Israel, we support the regional stability and security of the State of Israel, says a position of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs uploaded on the X network. Due to the tension..
With two flights of the government Airbus in two days, the Bulgarian state managed to evacuate 169 Bulgarians and their families from Lebanon after the escalation of tensions there. "Thank God we're back, " says one of the Bulgarians with..
Trust in NATO (40.1%) and the EU (59.5%) in Bulgaria has increased by 8 and 5 percent respectively in comparison to 2023, according to a study by Gallup International Balkan on attitudes towards the two organizations. Speaking to..
Bulgaria has begun evacuating our fellow citizens who expressed a desire to leave Beirut following Israel's attacks on Lebanon. Some of the Bulgarians..
Some of the Bulgarians in Lebanon were evacuated on a government aircraft flight on Monday evening. The first group, consisting of 89 people, mostly..
''The second evacuation flight from Lebanon will be carried out today around noon, provided the circumstances are favorable'', caretaker Premier Dimitar..
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