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Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first half of 2018 was 1.71 billion leva, or 1.6 per cent of this year’s estimated gross domestic product, […]
Bulgaria’s President Roumen Radev said on July 31 that he has vetoed a number of provisions in the amendments to the Administrative Procedure Co ...
Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov blamed last month’s crash of a Soviet-made Mi-17 helicopter, which killed two crew memb ...
Unemployment in Bulgaria is continuing its steady decrease, falling to 4.8 per cent in June 2018, in turn down from 6.2 per cent in June 2017, accordi ...
Household spending in Bulgaria is mostly devoted to food, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on July 31, citing figures for 2016. Eurostat listed household spending in Bulgaria on food and […]
Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos held a news conference on July 30, during which he defended the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ reaction to the Attica wildfires in recent days, in response […]
A three-judge panel of the Supreme Administrative Court has overturned the Cabinet’s changes to the Pirin National Park management plan, adopted late last year, on the grounds that the government […]
The European Commission said on July 30 that it has approved the proposed acquisition of mobile carrier Telenor’s subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe by Czech investment conglomerate PPF Group. […]
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, said on July 30 that the referendum on the name will have a consultative nature and that it will be […]
A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found that executives saw the business climate in the country in July 2018 unchanged from the previous month. In […]
