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Bulgaria has climbed to 62nd place in the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competiveness Report, up from 74th place, beating Slovakia, Romania and Greece – and is no longer in […]
Free access to personal data in Bulgaria’s Commercial Register is helping fraudsters to steal companies by changing their ownership, according to a ...
Consumers in the 17-member euro zone cut back on spending on food, drink and tobacco in July 2012, leading EU statistics office Eurostat to report tha ...
Motorists planning to travel long distances in Bulgaria for the four-day Unification Day long weekend from September 6 to 9 2012 were urged to get on ...
Bulgaria’s Cabinet was expected to approve, at a meeting on September 5 2012, changes to the Investment Promotion Act aimed at creating opportunities for increased investment in products and services […]
Five-ton Tsar Liberator Alexander II and his horse are on the move from their customary spot in central Sofia outside the Radisson Hotel – but they will be back in […]
Increasing excise taxes on cigarettes higher and earlier than originally planned is one of several measures by the Robert Fico government aimed at consolidating public finances in Slovakia. This may […]
French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti have called for urgent efforts to restore economic growth and create jobs in Europe as part of a plan to […]
Unemployment rates among young people will get even worse globally as the spillover of the euro crisis spreads from advanced to emerging economies, according to an International Labour Organization ( […]
