December 10 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Thursday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
DNEVNIK
- Bulgaria may freeze for six months renewable energy projects because of the great number of wind turbine generators projected to be commissioned in protected areas such as the European network of protected sites, Natura 2000, Bulgaria’s Ecology Minister Nona Karadjova said.
- The Bulgarian government will ask parliament to revise the 2009 budget to pay over 900 million levs in debt owed to the state-run social security system and construction companies. Thei would mean a budget gap of 500 million levs at the end of the year equivalent to 0.75% of the forecast GDP or below 2.0% of GDP under the Eurostat methodology, Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov said.
MONITOR
- Russian state-run corporation Rosatom is ready to enter an agreement with Bulgaria for financing the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant within days, a seniour executive of the Russian company said. Bulgaria has put on hold its plan to build a 2,000 megawatt nuclear power plant over financial difficulties and the withdrawal of the strategic investor in the project, Germany's RWE.
- Bulgaria is second after Ukraine in Eastern Europe in terms of decline of real estate prices since the beginning of the financial crisis, Paris–based consultants FNAIM said in a report.
STANDART
- The South Stream gas pipeline project, designed to carry 63 billion cu m Russian natural gas to the European Union via Bulgaria is under question due to financial difficulties suffered by Russia's Gazprom, according to Russian experts. The gas pipeline, a joint project of Gazprom and Italy's Eni, is estimated to cost 25 billion euro.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)