Tariff

Students blocked the main entrance of the university campus in Tirana's Mother Teresa Square, refusing to let in academics or workers and preventing lessons from taking place on Monday.

Chanting "We are students, not customers," the students said the "occupation" was a response to a government decision on October 15th, which raised tuition fees.

Bulgaria ranks among eleven EU member states suffering from deficits in power tariffs, the European Commission believes.

In a report issued last week, the EU's executive body recommends that electricity prices be hiked to address flaws in financing of power system.

Power distributor EVN has submitted a tariff update request with Bulgaria's State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR), seeking a 17.9% price increase as of October 1, 2014.

Bulgaria's Customs Agency is lagging behind its collection target by nearly BGN 500 M.

A total of BGN 4.354 B has been collected by the customs authority since the beginning of 2014, according to reports of investor.bg.

In the first seven months of 2014, receipts from VAT were lower than the forecast and the result for the same period of 2013.

The home consumers' power bill will drop by 2.6 percent on average from July 1, while the industrial consumers will pay by 4 percent less, after the electric power sold for lower prices on the stock exchange and the co-generation tax was cut, the National Energy Regulatory Authority said in a release to AGERPRES on Friday.

Officers of the the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) confiscated more than 9 million cigarettes at the western port of Patra on Thursday following a raid on containers that are believed to have been smuggled into the country from Indonesia.

Bulgaria's three mobile operators introduce lower mobile phone calls tariffs as of Monday, 14 April.

So far, phone calls were charged every 60 seconds, meaning that each call longer than 61 seconds was charged at the cost of two minutes.

Bulgaria's three mobile operators will change the mobile phone calls tariffs as of mid-April.

The new tariffs, which come into effect after a decision of Bulgaria's  Communications Regulation Commission (CRC), might lower the prices of some  phone calls.