These are some of the top headlines in Bulgarian newspapers on April 21 2008. The Sofia Echo has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy.

Politics

- Three days into the talks between the parties in the ruling coalition on the planned Cabinet re-shuffle, it is still unclear which ministers will be asked to turn in their portfolios, 24 Chassa daily reported. The leaders of the three parties will meet on the evening of April 21 to agree a proposal, which would be then endorsed by the coalition council the following day.

- Roumen Milanov and Ivan Chobanov are tipped by Standart daily as the front-runners to take the Interior Minister portfolio after the resignation of Roumen Petkov. Milanov, the former chief of the National Protection Service and the special unit fighting organised crime, is believed to be the favourite ahead of Chobanov, the former head of the counter-intelligence service.

Social

- Two thirds of Bulgaria's population do not know how to use internet, compared to the 40 per cent average in the European Union, according to a report quoted by Dnevnik daily. Bulgarians used the internet mainly for free phone calls, e-mail and tracking news, but seldom for e-government, online shopping or internet banking.

- Bulgaria's National Audit Office has tipped off prosecutors, asking them to investigate suspected fraud at the National Road Infrastructure Fund, Sega daily said. The head of the audit office, Valeri Dimitrov, would not reveal more details, but said that the tip-offs stemmed from the audit of the fund's report for 2007 and not the rows that broke out at the start of the year after allegations of conflict of interest were carried by Bulgarian media.

Economy

- German energy giant RWE is considering withdrawal from the race to buy 49 per cent in the company that will build Bulgaria’s second nuclear power plant at Belene, German newspaper Die Welt reported on April 20, quoted by Dnevnik daily.

- Bulgaria's Cabinet feared that the European Commission would freeze all structural aid funding and enforce the safeguard clauses in Bulgaria's EU accession treaty, Dnevnik said. To prevent that, the Cabinet was lobbying with German, UK and Spanish counterparts, as well as justice commissioner Franco Frattini, the daily said, quoting Bulgarian Government sources.