The budget will affect the Bulgarians in a way that 2010 years will be worse than 2009.

This was announced by the former energy minister Petar Dimitrov on Radio Focus. He explained that in a state of crisis the state should support businesses but in the new budget the resources destined to combat the crisis have been greatly reduced or even cut off. Dimitrov added that having been attracting investors, the country has committed to build infrastructure, which is an incentive measure, but the budget allocation for infrastructure has been reduced three times.

Bulgaria's new conservative government may broaden its role in Afghanistan to include participation in the European Union's police training mission, Defence Minister Nikolay Mladenov said Monday. Speaking at a security conference in Sofia, Mladenov said although Bulgaria's defence budget for 2010 has been decreased to 1.44 per cent of gross domestic product, the country would continue to finance its foreign missions.

B-2010 priorities are social sector, education, health, environment, road infrastructure, internal order and security.

Projected revenues under the consolidated fiscal program for 2010 amount to 26.4 billion, which is 41.6 percent of the GDP, including tax, and non-tax benefits. Out of them, tax revenues amount to 20.9 billion, non-tax revenues for 2010 - to 3.4 billion and the aids, whose major part are those of the European budget, are estimated at 2.1 billion USD.

Recent studies showed that amino acids contained in proteins of meat, eggs and milk are close to amino acids present in human organs and tissues.

The second, after mother's milk, product that perfectly suits our body is proteins found in meat. Thus, scientists proved once again the correctness of the theory of a balanced diet.

Between January and June, housing prices went down by 23 per cent on average compared with the like period of 2008, said Tsvetelina Tacheva, CEO of the Address real property agency said. Experts expect prices to continue to decline at least by the end of the year.

Bulgaria plans to replace the lev with the Europe's single currency, the euro, in 2012 or 2013, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov told daily 24 Chasa Monday.

"We have a chance in the last year of the mandate to introduce the euro," Djankov said.

The Bulgarian parliament on Monday approved a minority government led by former Sofia mayor Boyko Borisov, three weeks after the parliamentary elections took place.

The parliament approved the centre-right government with 162 votes for and 78 against.

Bulgarian Prime Minister-designate Boyko Borisov on
Thursday presented his new cabinet, local media reported.

The new government will consist of 15 ministers, among them former
senior World Bank economist Simeon Djankov who is to be the new
Minister of Finance and Margarita Popova former head of a special
unit investigating frauds with EU funds who was nominated as the

Bulgarian MPs who collaborated with the communist secret service will not be allowed to assume key posts in the national assembly, Bulgaria's new government decided Wednesday.

The proposal was adopted by 146 votes to 32. Parliamentarians with state security records will not be able to head parliamentary commissions or join international delegations.