November 12 (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.
KLASA
- Bulgaria and Romania will be the fastest growing drug markets in Central and Eastern Europe in the period 2009 -2012, US consultancy Frost & Sullivan report shows. For the period 2009 – 2012 the drug markets in the region are expected to grow by an average 6.9% to 7.4%.
PARI
- Bulgarian chemical industry sales halved through September, year-on-year, the daily said in an analysis of companies’ non-consolidated reports for the first nine months. The combined sales of nine major Bulgarian chemical producers totalled 230.25 million levs through September, compared to 521.1 million levs in the same period last year. Losses in the sector exceeded 25 million levs in the first nine months of 2009.
- The state and its healthcare system are in economic crisis, not to say a catastrophe, Bulgaria’s Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev said. The Bulgarian Physicians Union disagreed with the cabinet’s decision to keep the 830 million lev surplus of the National Health Insurance Fund planned for 2010 in the central bank’s reserve rather than spend it to improve healthcare services.
- Bulgaria’s foreign trade turnover for the first nine months of 2009 amounts to 40.7 billion levs, down 33.1% year-on-year, official statistics showed. Exports fell 28.9% to 16.6 billion levs, while imports decreased by 35.7% to just above 24 billion levs. Trade deficit fell to 7.5 billion levs through September from over 14 billion levs in the same period last year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)