October 20 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
24 CHASA
- Bulgarian milk producers will be allocated around two million euro out of 280 million euro in additional aid which European Union's farm ministers decided to extend to producers in compensation for low purchase prices of milk, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naidenov said.
- Bulgaria has failed to absorb 64.4% of pre-accession aid under the European Union's ISPA, PHARE and SAPARD programmes since it joined the bloc in 2007 due to conflict of interest, inadequate administrative capacity and inefficient control, the European Commission said in a report.
SEGA
- Microsoft is seeking around 20 million levs ($15.3 million/10.2 million euro) from the Bulgarian government for licensed copies of software allegedly used by the state administration in excess of the 70.75 million levs worth of software purchased by the prevoius cabinet in 2008, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said.
- Railway traffic in Bulgaria will be halted by a nationwide strike of railway workers at the end of October or early next month after talks with the government failed to resolve a pay dispute last week, trade union officials said.
PARI
- The projects for connecting Bulgaria's gas network with neighbouring Greece and Romania are at the stage of feasibility studies, the board chairman of the Bulgarian Energy Holding Boris Pekov told Pari daily in an interview. The design of the facilities has to be completed next year.
- The number of construction workers laid off by the end of the year will reach 35,000, the chairman of the Bulgarian Construction Chamber Simeon Peshov said. Orders in the sector have dropped by 35% since September 2008.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bulgarian levs)