Zornitsa

Bulgaria allocates the highest percentage of its gross domestic product to police and security compared to other European Union countries. While this figure is as low as 0.7% in Ireland, it reaches 2.5% in Bulgaria, the highest in the EU.

"The last National Assembly increased the monthly maternity benefits from 194 euro to 332 euro, and that is a populist move and does not stimulate the resolution of the demographic crisis," Zornitsa Slavova from the Institute for Market Economics said for the BNR.

The average salary registered over 10 percent growth year-on- year.On the other hand, the share of remuneration from work in the overall household budgets has shrunk, while the share of incomes from pensions and social benefits has grown.

A major problem for young people in Northwestern Bulgaria is the disconnected relationship between teacher, student and parent. This shows a project under the Erasmus Plus program of the Youth Voice Association, writes the Bulgarian National Television.

Improving the relationship would increase the desire for young people to go to school.

Over 20,000 jobs for people with disabilities have been announced by employers who want to use state support through funding under one of the Human Resources Development Operational Program schemes. This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Labor Zornitsa Rusinova at a meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Program.

Half of Burgas was left without power this morning. Electricity has stopped at about 8:30, BTA said.

From Southwest Electricity reported that there is a breakdown, and teams are working to fix the problem.

Without electricity, they are part of the residential complexes ''Lazur'', ''Slaveykov'', ''Bratya Miladinovi'', ''Zornitsa'', ''Izgrev'' and ''Sarafovo''.

Sofia. Zornitsa Daskalova submitted a request to resign as Director of the Registry Agency. Minister Tsetska Tsacheva accepted the resignation, the Ministry of Justice said.

Sofia. As of August 16, commercial register users could make checks by national identity number, Executive Director of the Registry Agency Zornitsa Daskalova told a press conference, Focus News Agency reports.

For 5 minutes, students from Georgi Benkovski School in Zornitsa district in Burgas were evacuated after the school warden found suspicious luggage, the correspondent of BGNES in Burgas reported.

A new major player enters the food delivery sector in Bulgaria. Amsterdam-based Takeaway.com acquires "Hello Hungry", the company behind the local market leader BGMenu, in a EUR 10.5 million deal. The Dutch group acquires 100% of the company, pays the cash and invests additional funds in Bulgaria and Romania.