PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Oct 22

SOFIA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday.
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24 CHASA - The European Union's executive Commission is expected to end the special monitoring on Bulgaria's progress of tacking corruption and judicial reforms, a draft of the annual report of the monitoring showed.

Bulgaria will be part of the bloc's overall rule of law survey.

-- Bulgaria is building two natural gas highways, one that will be the extension of TurkStream gas pipeline through the country and a gas link with Greece, which will allow the Balkan country to have one of the cheapest gas prices in the region, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said.

(Trud, 24 Chasa)

-- Bulgaria plans to increase state pensions by 6.7% from July next year, the 2020 budget draft of the social security institute showed. (24 Chasa, Sega, Trud)