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Bulgarian Taxpayers Paying For Officials Cheap Vacations
February 24, 2021 10:38 GMT
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SOFIA Remnants of a communist-era hotel and resort network that once provided subsidized vacations for millions of Bulgarian workers still exist.
But more than three decades after the collapse of communism, the legacy of Bulgaria s Soviet-style recreation stations is a perk enjoyed only by public officials and civil service employees.
The rest of the country Bulgaria s taxpayers must pick up the tab for maintaining what is left of the system at a cost of more than $11 million a year.
Those are the findings of a World Bank study that the Bulgarian government commissioned in 2018.
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File photo: These head-shots provided by the Bulgarian Interior Ministry shows Canadian citizen Hassan El Hajj Hassan, right, and Australian citizen Meliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein, left, both suspected of being involved in the July 2012 Burgas bombing. (photo credit: courtesy Bulgarian Interior Ministry)
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