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Belgian based KBC Group (KBC) and the National Bank of Greece (NBG), the Greek parent company of United Bulgarian Bank (UBB) reached agreement on December 30 2016 for KBC to […]
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first 11 months of 2016 was 3.47 billion leva, or 3.8 per cent of this ...
President Klaus Iohannis has designated veteran leftist Sorin Grindeanu as the new Romanian head of government. Previously, Iohannis refused to endors ...
Bulgaria’s utilities regulator decided on December 30 to raise the gas prices by 4.7 per cent starting January 1 2017, well below the 13 per cent hi ...
A regular poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found views of the country’s business climate in December largely unchanged compared with the previous month. In 2016, the NSI […]
The Bulgarian Interior Ministry and the Association of Bulgarian Enterprises for International Transport and Roads have unveiled a joint project to advise transport company drivers on how to prevent their […]
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has rejected allegations that his country has exported weapons to the conflict in Syria and says he does not accept “moralising” on the topic from […]
Seven hundred people have died in road accidents in Bulgaria so far in 2016, a total of 43 in December alone, according to Interior Ministry statistics up to December 27. […]
Bulgaria’s outgoing Cabinet said on December 28 that it decided to re-open the tender for a 35-year concession on the Plovdiv Airport, the government media office said in a statement. […]
Bulgarian regional health authorities declared flu epidemics on December 28 in the districts of Harmanli and Haskovo, a day after a flu epidemic was declared in the town of Pernik. […]
