PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Dec 5

SOFIA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

-- Accepting Bulgaria into the European Union´s passport-free Schengen area would be an important factor in enhancing security in Europe, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said after his meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris (Trud, 24 Chasa, Standart, Monitor)

-- The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) will publish all options for the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant on the Danube River on its website within a few days, Alexander Tasev, head of the BAS's Institute for Economic Research said, adding the academy had not been pressured by the government to show that the plant can be built (Trud, Monitor, Standart)

-- Sopharma, Bulgaria's biggest pharmaceuticals producer, said its sales revenue rose 12 percent on an annual basis in through November, as exports increased by 21 percent. Sopharma has subsidiaries in Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Belarus, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (Standart, Trud)

-- Bulgarian top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov, the world number three, will not renew his contract with sports management company Team 8 that expires at the end of this year, Dimitrov's father Dimitar Gospodinov said (Tema Sport, 24 Chasa, Standart, Trud, Monitor)

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