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The 27-member European Union ended March 2013 with 10.9 per cent unemployment, seasonally adjusted, unchanged from February, according to EU statistics office Eurostat. Unemployment – also seasonally-adjusted – in the […]
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has revised the country’s economic growth forecast for this year to one per cent. The new target is set out in the Convergence Programme for 2013-2016, which […]
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first two months of the year stood at 40.3 million euro, the equivalent of 0.1 per cent of gross domestic product, according to […]
Annual inflation in Bulgaria was 1.6 per cent in March 2013 while monthly inflation was -0.4 per cent, according to figures released on April 16 by European Union statistics agency […]
Bulgaria’s annual consumer price inflation fell to 2.7 per cent in March, declining for a second straight month, data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) showed on April 12. The […]
The 27-member European Union ended February 2013 with 12 per cent unemployment, seasonally adjusted, according to EU statistics office Eurostat. Unemployment – also seasonally-adjusted – in the 17-member euro zone […]
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on April 1 that the Budget deficit for the first two months of the year was 732 million leva, about 167 million leva higher than in […]
Bulgaria’s annual consumer price inflation fell to 3.6 per cent in February, breaking a three-month upward trend, data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) showed on March 13. Monthly inflation […]
Bulgaria’s economy grew by 0.8 per cent last year, the country’s National Statistics Institute (NSI) said on March 6. In real terms, gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012 was 77.6 […]
Unemployment among youth, meaning under-25s, hit 28.3 per cent in Bulgaria in January 2013, higher than the European Union average of 23.6 per cent. This is according to figures released […]
