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After the meetings with the transport branch and with employers' organizations due to the prices of gas and electricity in the Council of Ministers (CoM) a briefing was held.

Deputy Prime Minister Cornlia Ninova highlighted several key points from today's meeting and meetings.

"We discussed the embargo on oil imports from Russia not to apply to Bulgaria - an exception was requested, business aid will continue in May, we reiterated a claim to keep the price of gas - as it is now from Gazprom, derogation "Increasing the VAT threshold to help small and medium-sized businesses. We discussed an option to eliminate the gas excise tax," she said.

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Businesses are demanding that electricity compensation continue until prices normalize.

It is proposed that the lower threshold for support be the energy mix of the EWRC and no ceiling.

It is insisted that the natural gas meeting should not be paid more than the formula with Gazpromexport.

Employers stressed that electricity subsidies should last as long as necessary, and not talk every month.

Today we did not receive a firm answer to our questions.

We expect next week in a conversation with the Minister of Energy to see how far we can go, the employers added.

Not much optimism was seen in these long conversations.

This requires us to seek a solution to the issues while they are still small, said the chairman of Podkrepa LC Dimitar Manolov

Born on August 23, 1958 in Sofia. He completed his secondary education at the 35th high school with teaching.

He explained the importance of starting the work of the Council on the Green Deal at the Council of Ministers, which is still not working.

We are in protest readiness for May 18.

If the conditions for aid due to high electricity prices are unacceptable, we will have no choice, employers are adamant.

"Today, the Council of Ministers did not consider a national plan for the introduction of the euro," Ninova said when asked about today's controversy in the National Assembly over the presentation of a national plan for the introduction of the euro.

Dimitar Manolov

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