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Tobacco producers postpone today’s protest (ROUNDUP) 

Tobacco producers postponed today protests. This became clear at a meeting between tobacco producers and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov last evening.

The meeting between Boyko Borisov and representatives of the tobacco producers in Bulgaria ended, short after midnight, with positive results. The tobacco producers had announced yesterday that they would start a strike, in order to keep the amount of subsidies per kilogramme of produced tobacco, which would not be possible, if the total amount of the subsidy remained BGN 116 million.

Prime Minister Borisov said, for Focus News Agency, that both sides made commitments and the meeting was successful, as there would be no strike.

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