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Cabinet discusses budget and social policy at regular meeting

Ministers meet at 1:00 p.m.

Dec 23, 2024 06:46 89

The Council of Ministers (CM) will hold a meeting today at 1:00 p.m., with a preliminary agenda that includes important points on the budget and social policy, the government's press service reported, quoted by BTA.

Among the main proposals in the CM program are the approval of additional expenditures on the budgets of the Council of Ministers, the Commission for Public Oversight of Auditors, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Energy and other state institutions.

The agenda also includes a draft Decision to amend and supplement the Program for Humanitarian Assistance to Displaced Persons from Ukraine with Temporary Protection in the Republic of Bulgaria.

The caretaker government is expected to vote on a draft amendment to a decree approving additional payments from the central budget for investment projects for the modernization of the Voluyak - Dragoman sections and Elin Pelin - Kostenets within the framework of the Sofia - Dragoman and Sofia - Plovdiv railway lines under the "Transport Connectivity" Program; 2021-2027.

A report will be considered on Bulgaria's participation in the meetings of the Council of the European Union on Health and Cohesion Policy, held on December 3 and November 28 in Brussels.

Among other decisions are transfers of properties to municipalities and universities, as well as updating the National Map of Higher Education in Bulgaria, the announcement also states.