Bulgaria Education Receives BGN 2,6 B in Budget 2010

Bulgaria Deputy Education Minister, Milka Kodzhabashieva, stated Saturday that BGN 2,6 B have been provided for education from the Budget 2010.

According to Kodzhabashieva the sum is approximately equal to the budgets of the Defense Ministry and the Interior Ministry. She said that the budget for schools this year is guaranteed at 90% and that there would be no budgetary difficulties.

Kodzhabashieva, was speaking in Sliven, where she handed out prizes to students to mark the ‘Day of Leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival’.

Bulgaria's Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, tabled a balanced but austerity 2010 draft budget in parliament on Thursday, which the government had approved on Wednesday.