Bulgaria’s exports climbed 10.7 per cent in 2017, but trade balance negative
Bulgaria exported goods worth more than 52.2 billion leva in 2017, an increase of 10.7 per cent compared with 2016,
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Month: February 2018
European Parliament votes for review of daylight saving time
European Parliament members voted 384 to 153 in a non-binding resolution on February 8 2018 to urge the European Commission
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Sofia to use site of Bulgarian former dictator Dimitrov’s mausoleum for underground art gallery
Sofia City Council voted on February 8 to turn the underground spaces at the site where late communist dictator Georgi
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Delegation to tour markets to seek motor vehicle manufacturer to relocate to Bulgaria
A Bulgarian delegation including former president Rossen Plevneliev and Economy Minister Emil Karanikolov is to tour markets in Europe and
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Online petition calls on Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit to condemn ‘Lukov March’
A new online petition is calling on Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit to speak out against the “Lukov March” planned
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Zaev: Fresh round of talks on ‘name dispute’ next week
The Republic of Macedonia’s prime minister Zoran Zaev said on February 7 that he does not see the importance of
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EC winter forecast nudges down Bulgaria’s 2018 growth estimate
The European Commission’s winter forecast for the EU economy, released on February 7, estimated that Bulgaria’s economy would continue growing
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Number of Bulgarian MEPs to be unchanged in post-Brexit European Parliament
Members of the European Parliament voted on February 7 to approve changes to the number of seats in the legislature
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EU leaders invite Turkish president Erdoğan to ‘leaders’ meeting’ in Bulgaria’s Varna in March 2018
European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker have written to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inviting
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