Bulgarian News Agency

Bulgarian Parliament has launched a procedure to elect a new General Director of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency after the death of Maxim Minchev.

The deadline for nominating candidates by MPs is January 15.

The candidates will be checked for affiliation with the State security services and the intelligence services of the Bulgarian People's Army during the communist regime.

The health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic greatly influenced the activity of European news agencies in terms of working procedures, and some expect a drop in revenues, according to the directors of some of these media outlets in interviews published on Monday on the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) website.

The State Gazette has promulgated today amendments to Bulgaria's Gambling Act that put an end to private lotteries, the Bulgarian News Agency BTA reports, quoted by BNR.

The National Palace of Culture hosts the Sixth World Congress of Information Agencies, organized in Sofia by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency and the World Council of Information Agencies.

The forum will be opened by President Rumen Radev.

More than 200 delegates from 100 countries will take part.The motto is "The Future of the News".

The news agencies,  including the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA), that participated earlier this month at an international media conference in Tirana united around a resolution to fight аgainst fake news.

The Bulgarian Telegraph Agency is 120 years old. It was founded in 1898 by the decree of Prince Ferdinand. The Agency is the main and most modern source of information for the print and electronic media, the state institutions and the non-governmental organizations in Bulgaria.

The fifth News Agencies World Congress (NAWC) has elected the Director General of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency Maxim Minchev as Secretary General of the Council and decided that the sixth congress will take place in Bulgaria.

This happened at the forum in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, attended by the heads of about 100 news agencies from five continents.

Several hundred people have demonstrated against government plans to accommodate migrats near the village of Boyanovo, Southern Bulgaria.

Officials intend on using the premises of the old barracks near the village to make room for arriving migrants, as the operated by the State Agency for Refugees have run out of free beds.

TIR trucks have formed a huge queue at Kapitan Andreevo border crossing, on the Turkish side, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) reports.

Due to a problem on the Bulgarian side of the border, trucks can be seen waiting to cross into the country from the crossing back to the city of Edirne.

Bulgaria has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Bulgarians in the Panama Papers affair, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has said.

He has made clear that the National Revenue Agency (NRA) stands ready to look into any new name of a Bulgarian national that appears in media publications as involved in offshore dealings.