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| 7 Nov 2009 | Issue 164 | Sofia: min 11°, max 19°; Varna: min 12°, max 19° |
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| Moscow Police Raid | Finance | Exclusive | Environment | Diplomacy | Business | Energy | Education | Defense | Swine Flu Epidemic | Society | Industry | Bulgaria in EU | Swine Flu Epidemic | Sports | Properties | Domestic | Archaeology | 100 Days | Tourism | Crime | Show Buzz | Obituaries | Elections 2009 | Interview | Views on BG | Editorial | Smile | World | In Pictures | ||
Top Story Bulgaria Health Ministry Declares National Swine Flu EpidemicBulgaria's Health Ministry announced Friday afternoon the declaration of a state of national swine flu epidemic over the rising number of patients with A(H1N1). The Health Ministry made the decision based on the grounds that the number of people with swine flu has reached 210 per 10 000. On Thursday, Bulgaria's Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev announced a little over 100 000 Bulgarians were infected with A(H1N1). Thus, all schools in Bulgaria will be in a swine flu break all of next week (November 9-14). The Health Ministry recommends limiting the number and scope of public events. Any decisions for closing nursery schools and universities over the epidemic will be made on the local level. There will be no mandatory closing of cinemas, theaters, libraries, or other public facilities despite the declaration of a national epidemic. The news from the Health Ministry came shortly after the Bulgarian capital Sofia declared a swine flu epidemic starting Monday. Thus, 20 of Bulgaria's 28 administrative districts had declared swine flu epidemic before the news for the national emergency. Earlier on Friday it was announced that a 53-year-old man had died in a hospital in Sofia as a result of complications of the A(H1N1) virus, bringing Bulgaria’s total swine flu death toll to six. According to Chief Health Inspector Tencho Tenev, the man had schizophrenia and cirrhosis. He did treat himself at home for a week, when he finally saw a doctor, and was taken to hospital in critical condition. As the epidemic has been worsening, Bulgaria's MPs adopted Friday emergency amendments to the Medical Products in Human Medicine Act. The aim of the amendments is to simplify the regime for purchasing medical products with state funds outside of the mandatory health insurance system in a time when the country is facing "epidemics, pandemics, or confirmed use of chemical and biological weapons, or the spread of nuclear radiation." The MPs were in a rush because of what has been termed "a rising tension" in the Bulgarian society because of the fast spread of the A(H1N1) virus and the lack of any vaccines. Bulgaria's Health Minister, Bozhidar Nanev, has said that the legislative changes were going to shorten the period for getting and applying the swine flu vaccines by between 1 and 3 months. Bulgaria's Chief Epidemiologist, Angel Kunchev, has told the BNT that unfortunately there were no A(H1N1) vaccines available in Bulgaria at the moment but said that medications and vaccines would soon be procured from Germany and Sweden. Young children, doctors, pregnant women, and people with chronic diseases will be the priorities group for immunization. Kunchev has called upon all Bulgarians to still get the regular seasonal flu shots. In his words, the only vaccines available in drug stores are Tamiflu and Relenza. Bulgaria Ex-Labor Minister Faces 20 Years in Jail over Embezzlement of BGN 10 M Bulgaria's former Labor Minister and current Socialist Party MP, Emiliya Maslarova, is under the investigation for the embezzlement of BGN 10 M of state money. Maslarova, and her friend Ventsislav Draganov, who has a construction firm, are believed to have pocketed BGN 9,8 M by violating the Public Procurement Act over the repair of a Ministry of Labor building in the southern city of Stara Zagora. This was announced Friday by Prosecutor Stilyana Kozhuharova, a spokesperson of Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor, Boris Velchev. Velchev has demanded the lifting of Maslarova’s MP immunity so the investigation could proceed. Earlier on Friday Maslarova herself gave up her MP immunity voluntarily, calling the legal procedure against her "a monstrous libel", and claiming her family had been the target of political and personal harassment over the last six months. The Chief Prosecutor's Office is presently awaiting the results from a large-scale inspection of the Ministry of Labor, which will be added to the 250 volumes of evidence already gathered. After the inspection is ready, the prosecutors will decide exactly what charges they are going to raise against Maslarova and her friend Draganov. They are being investigated for large-scale embezzlement of public funds, and criminal breach of trust. If found guilty of embezzlement, each of the two could receive between 5 and 20 years in jail; if found guilty of criminal beach of trust, their sentences could be between 3 and 10 years. The prosecutors started to investigate the case with the Ministry of Labor building in Stara Zagora in August 2009. After former Agriculture Minister in the Stanishev government, Valeri Tsvetanov from the DPS party, faced similar charges in September 2009 over land swap deals, Maslarova could become the second Minister to be charged over violations. Bulgaria's former Prime Minister, Sergey Stanishev, himself is facing potential charges over mishandling and abusing classified information; not unlike Maslarova, he has agreed to have his MP immunity lifted.
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This was announced Tuesday by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov during the Fourth Annual Meeting of Government and Business organized together with the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIBG). Borisov declared that securing financial stability by reducing the deficit that emerged in the summer of 2009 and balancing the budget is the most crucial achievement of the government in its first 100 days (July 27 – November 3, 2009). The Prime Minister stressed the GERB party government inherited huge deficits in all sectors and took drastic measures to rectify the situation by cutting state spending. “The achieving of a balanced budget is a crucial signal for foreign investors, for financial stability, and credit interest rates,” Borisov said. As another major achievement of his first 100 days in office he pointed to the unblocking of frozen EU funds. Borisov stressed the importance of financial stability and security as a top priority of his government, and announced that he had formed a special council of economy experts to advise him on financial matters. The newly formed council includes Kristalina Georgieva, Vice-President of the World Bank; Lyubomir Hristov, former advisor of the World Bank President, and Professor Iliyan Mihov. "The Ministers have had it really tough with what they have discovered in their ministries. They cannot stop talking about that because either there is no money, or there are contracts leaving their institutions deeply in debt,” the Prime Minister said. “We have not enjoyed a bit of “media comfort”. They started to count my days since the very beginning. If my father was alive, he would say, “Son, you are a dummy for taking responsibility with all this deficit during the hardest economic crisis. If you don’t like what I do – you can have new elections,” stressed Borisov adding that even the very fact that his government stopped the swap deals with state lands was an important achievement. The PM asked the some 200 top Bulgarian businessmen present at the meeting “not to reduce their business more than they have to.” Borisov also said the fact that former Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski attack his successor Simeon Djankov over the idea to deposit part of Bulgaria’s fiscal reserve at commercial banks while Oresharski himself had done that through a secret deal with the central bank was clearly an attempt to deliberately affect the stability of the banking system. 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