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Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first four months of 2017 was 1.59 billion leva, or 1.6 per cent of this year’s estimated gross domestic product, […]
The clay courts of Roland Garros have not been kind to Grigor Dimitrov, who has failed to progress beyond the first round of the French Open in the pa ...
The statement by Bulgarian President Radev’s office that the reason that no Orthodox or Roman Catholic clergy from Bulgaria were included in Rad ...
Unemployment in Bulgaria in April 2017 was 6.4 per cent, down from eight per cent in April 2016, but over a year, youth unemployment in the country ha ...
Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s coalition Cabinet appointed Petar Haralampiev as the new head of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad. The decision, taken at a scheduled meeting of the Cabinet […]
For the fourth time, Bulgaria’s Special Criminal Court has not proceeded with the trial of two accused of involvement in the July 2012 terrorist attack at Bourgas Airport that left […]
Bulgaria has the second-highest percentage of smokers in the European Union, 36 per cent, while the average Bulgarian smoker puffs away just less than 16 cigarettes a day. Bulgaria is […]
Bulgaria’s government is to review the state of the security services and projects for the modernisation of the country’s military, it was agreed at a May 30 meeting of the […]
Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court ruled on May 30 to declare the outcome of last year’s nationwide referendum on electoral rules as not binding. The plebiscite, held in November 2016 at […]
In May 2017, the indicator of the business climate in Bulgaria increased by 3.2 percentage points in comparison with April, boosted by improved optimism in all sectors surveyed – industry, […]
