Plamen

It is not necessary to boost healthcare expenditure for 2014, Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski said Wednesday.

Oresharski told the Bulgarian National Television he had looked at "numbers" and found the deficit at the National Health Insurance Fund (NZOK) for this year was the same as that for the previous one.

The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) has insisted on the urgent adoption of key laws before the dissolution of Parliament.

Last year Bulgarian MPs have traveled over 1.7 million km in their official vehicles which is approximately 44 times the length of the Earth's Equator.

Coalition for Bulgaria's MP Plamen Slavov has traveled more than 50,000 km, Bulgarian private TV station BTV reports quoting data released by the Parliament. Plamen Zhelyazkov from the same party has spent over 48,600 km on the road.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski assured that the country’s banks are safe and there is no need for panic among citizens.

National Health Insurance Fund (NZOK)'s overdraft is expected to be BGN 491 M (EUR 245.5 M), a financial report at the institution reveals.

It shows a BGN 91 M increase of the deficit compared to previous estimates.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic sent a letter of condolences to his Bulgarian counterpart Plamen Oresarski for the victims of the floods that recently affected the eastern part of the country.

Many residents had to be rescued as cars were swept away and hundreds were left without electricity or food after heavy rains caused a flood wave in the Black Sea resort city of Varna late on Thursday.

“The tragedy is enormous,” the mayor of Varna, Ivan Portnih, told media.

European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard is to arrive on an official visit to Bulgaria on Monday.

She will meet with Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski and Deputy Environment Minister Atanas Kostadinov, according to reports of mediapool.bg.

Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski announced the suspension on Sunday after meeting US senators John McCain, Christopher Murphy and Ron Johnson.

“I have ordered all work to be stopped. We will decide on further developments following consultations with Brussels,” Oresharski told journalists.

US Senators John McCain, Chris Murphy, and Ron Johnson are visiting Bulgaria Sunday as part of a trip to Eastern Europe which also includes Poland and Romania.

The visit was announced by the US Embassy in Sofia.