PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - July 23

SOFIA, July 23 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

GENERAL AND POLITICS

- Bulgaria and Romania are the scapegoats in the European Union, says the chief secretary of Bulgaria's ruling Socialist party in response to EU reports expected to slam the newcomers for inefficient anti-graft policies (Standart, Klasa).

- Turkish Dogus Insaat ve Ticaret and Bulgarian consortium Metrotrace will build Sofia's second metro line worth 470 million levs ($382.7 million), mayor Boiko Borisov says. (Dnevnik, Klasa, Standart, Trud, Duma, Pari).

BUSINESS

- The commission for protection of competition has fined egg and poultry producers with a total 293,000 levs ($238,600) over a price cartel, the commission says (Dnevnik, Monitor, Sega, Novinar, Standart, Trud, Duma, 24 Chasa, Pari).

MONITOR - Sofia Municipal Council will decide whether to sell its Municipal Bank in early September, the council chairman says.