The explosion did not interrupt the debates, the daily says. Banker Krassimir Stoichev went out of a building next to the hotel seconds before the makeshift bomb went off. He is being prosecuted for serious fraud in Vienna, and for syphoning off 12 million dollars from the bankrupt Kapitalbank in Bulgaria.
All dailies speculate about the possible target.
The dailies frontpage stories on Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's visit to Helsinki. He is there for the European Council and the summit of the European People's Party. One will be given to each of the 15 member states, and three will be opened when Bulgaria gets an official invitation to negotiations. Interviewed by the weekly, Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Kissyov says that to him this is the most important date since the National Revival. If Bulgaria is invited to accession negotiations, it will have no difficulties signing agreements with the World Bank and the IMF, Tsonev said.