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Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov will file a complaint against the spokesperson of opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Elena Yoncheva, over what he called crimes against the national interests and security,  FOCUS News Agency reported.

A meeting was held on Tuesday at the Council of Ministers in Sofia to discuss preparations for the forthcoming summer tourist season.

Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy Valery Simeonov said that the government will support and promote legal tourism business in this country not only with operational means and measures, but also with proposals for legislation changes.

''There is no way I can resign'', said Deputy PM in charge of economic and demographic policy and co-chair of the United Patriots coalition Valeri Simeonov during NovaTV show Hello Bulgaria, quoted by FOCUS news agency.

Bulgarian Deputy PM Valeri Simeonov will sue Sega newspaper for publishing false information. This became known during an extraordinary briefing at the Burgas Regional Administration, FOCUS Radio - Burgas reported.

Simeonov stated that the newspaper was spreading negative propaganda against him, manipulating an interview with him.

Bulgarian Deputy Minister whose nationalist party recently joined a coalition with the center-right resigned on Wednesday after a photo emerged of him doing a Nazi salute, writes the Times of Israel.

The image, taken in 2008, shows Pavel Tenev raising his right arm in front of a soldier in a wax museum in Paris.

Just two days after he was appointed, Bulgaria's new deputy regional development minister, Pavel Tenev, has resigned after media got hold of a picture from his Facebook profile, showing him giving a Nazi salute to figures of Nazi soldiers in the Grevin museum in Paris nine years ago.

The Bulgarian Parliament granted state money prizes for special merits to the Bulgarian state and nation to 15 people, according to FOCUS News Agency.

173 MPs voted "for" the proposal, 0 voted "against," and 1 "abstained," with which the decision passed.

The government hired Mitko Simeonov for the Director of the Bulgarian Privatization Agency and Post-Privatisation Control (PAPC), reported BGNES.

Simeonov who was the deputy director of the Agency is now the new director, after Emil Karanikolov became Minister of Economy.

As a new deputy director is appointed Petar Petrov who was a member of PAPC from 2010 to 2013.  

The prime minister of demographic and economic policy, Valeri Simeonov announced on BNT that he is against the wild camping, and he will not permit it to happen by the current governance, reported Dnevnik.

The negotiating process on drafting a joint strategic programme of the future coalition government has been completed, United Patriots co-leader Valeri Simeonov told a joint news briefing in Parliament with GERB leader Boyko Borisov on Thursday.

The governance programme of GERB and the United Patriots covers the period until 2021, Simeonov said.