“The price of petrol should fall but the big players are making a big profit at a time of crisis,” Nastimir Ananiev from the ruling We Continue the Change said for the BNR. Ananiev demanded that the Commission on Protection of Competition check “whether there is a cartel and why fuel prices are not falling”.
The socialists from the Bulgarian Socialist Party demanded that the council of the ruling coalition discuss a reduction of VAT on food and medicines. The other partners are against, and want the 20% VAT rate to remain, and that the government redistribute the money from the tax to assist the people affected.
The Ministry of Finance said they would announced a new package of anti-crisis measures in the sphere of energy by the end of the week.
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After hard days of fighting the fires, the situation in the country is under control. There is no danger of the fire on Greek territory near the Bulgarian-Greek border spreading, it was reported People whose houses have been..
The European Commission has presented the annual report on the rule of law in the EU. The Commission notes the changes adopted in the Constitution of Bulgaria. Sofia is once again recommended to undertake legal changes to avoid the..
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For the first time, the Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island will study in detail the pulsations in the Earth's ionosphere caused by solar..
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