SOFIA (Bulgaria), December 30 (SeeNews) – Following are some of the main stories in Bulgarian media on Wednesday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
DNEVNIK
- Nine local and foreign companies and consortia are vying for the construction of a waste treatment plant in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, estimated to cost 229 million levs, deputy mayor Maria Boyadzhiiska said. Bids will be opened on January 4.
- On January 20 the shareholders of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange – Sofia will vote on a cut in the number of its managing board members to five from seven proposed by Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov. The government is the largest single shareholder of the stock exchange with a stake of 44%.
- Russia may acquire a higher stake in Bulgaria’s Belene nuclear power plant project than the stake of 10 to 15 percent currently discussed by the two sides, and sell that stake to private investors at a later stage, Bulgarian Energy Minister Traycho Traykov said. So far Moscow has said it was ready to acquire and finance 100% of the project.
PARI
- The National Revenue Agency expects to collect 13.344 billion levs in revenue this year, which is 85% of plan and 228 million levs above the 2008 figure.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)