SOFIA, June 6 (Reuters) – The se are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
— Bulgarian parliament’s defence committee voted to approve 3.5 billion levs ($2.1 billion) military modernisation projects involving the acquisition of fighter jets and armoured infantry vehicles. The projects will be put to the plenary of the parliament because the sum involved is substantially over the threshold for which parliamentary approval is required by law (Trud, Standart, 24 Chasa, Monitor)
— China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is awaiting a Bulgarian parliament decision on lifting the moratorium on the project for construction of Belene nuclear power plant, the energy ministry said (Trud, Standart, Monitor)
— Bulgaria’s Agriculture Minister Rumen Porozhanov called for generational renewal to make European agriculture to be competitive, adding that less than only six percent of Bulgarian farmers are under 35 years of age while 56 percent are over 55. Porozhanov said instruments should be enabled to support young farmers and invest in innovation and technology to make the farming sector more attractive (Standart, Trud, Sega)
— More than 100 million levs would be needed to avert Varna being flooded after intense rainfall of the kind that hit the Bulgarian Black Sea city on Monday, mayor Ivan Portnih said. The city was inundated when a huge amount of rain – the equivalent of the rainfall of a month and a half – deluged Varna in the space of two hours (Standart, Trud, Monitor)
($1 = 1.6655 leva)
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