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PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - August 20

Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:31am EDT

SOFIA, Aug 20 (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

- Bulgarian beekeepers, grain and fish producers will join the protests of milk producers tomorrow who will block major roads across the country over unpaid subsidies (Dnevnik, Novinar, Duma, Standart, Trud).

DNEVNIK - Bulgarians receive the lowest salaries in the European union, federation of European employers data shows. The average salary in Bulgaria is two times lower than those in Romania and 18 times lower than the salaries in Germany.

- Bulgarian finance ministry has started public procurement procedures for external auditors which will check the payment agencies that Brussels barred from receiving EU funds over corruption and mismanagement (Dnevnik, Klasa, Sega, Standart, Pari).

BUSINESS

DNEVNIK - Bulgaria's industrial mineral producer Kaolin KAO.BB posted a net profit of 6.18 million levs ($4.64 million) for the first half of the year, down by 6.7 million levs ($5.03 million) from the same period a year ago.



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