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Unemployment in Bulgaria in August 2017 was 6.2 per cent, unchanged from the previous month but down from 7.4 per cent in August 2016, according to seasonally-adjusted figures released on […]
A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found that views of the business climate got slightly gloomier in September 2017, driven down by the more unfavourable […]
In Hamburg (Germany), taxi passengers pay 2 Euro per kilometer. But there is also a base fee of 3.30 Euro. Therefore, an average taxi ride will seldomly cost less than […]
Bulgaria’s Competition Protection Commission (CPC) has rejected a claim by a candidate that bid for the Plovdiv Airport concession but was disqualified by the Transport Ministry, which said that the […]
Cancelling flights or entire routes seems to be the latest fashion among low-cost airlines. The largest of them in Europe, Ryanair, started it. The airline cancelled 22 flights to and […]
The number of business trips in the European Union dropped by 40 per cent between 2007 and 2015, the years after the beginning of the global economic and financial crisis, […]
To Apple iPhone users, the release of the next model always used to be a big day. In America, the waiting lines in front of Apple stores where shorter this […]
Wizz Air will discontinue its flights from the Bulgarian capital Sofia to Birmingham, Bristol, and Doncaster/Sheffield. From November 6, 2017, none of those flights will take place anymore. The low […]
Bulgarian telecom Mobiltel, which currently operates under the Mtel brand, will rebrand as A1 as it parent company Telekom Austria has announced a “harmonisation of its branding strategy” across the […]
Europe’s largest airline, the low coast carrier Ryanair, has cancelled hundreds of flights between today and the end of October. The measure will supposedly improve the punctuality of the company’s […]
