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Month: April 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Q1 2019 Budget surplus at 1.81B leva

April 30, 2019May 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first three months of 2019 was 1.81 billion

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria high court rejects appeal in voting machines tender

April 30, 2019May 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) ruled on April 30 to deny the challenge lodged by one of losing bidders in

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Bulgaria 

EU-funded guest houses probe: Bulgarian PM calls for ‘uncompromising’ approach

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told a Cabinet meeting on April 30 that anyone found to have cheated in the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s road agency: More than half of those caught without ‘e-vignettes’ were foreigners

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

About 1400 motorists were caught on Bulgaria’s major roads over the Orthodox Easter weekend driving without having paid the “e-vignette”

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government hands 7.5M leva to University of National and World Economy after warning of bankruptcy

April 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet agreed on April 30 to approve a transfer of 7.5 million leva (about 3.75

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Business 

Poll sees business climate in Bulgaria improved in April 2019

April 30, 2019May 1, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

A regular monthly poll by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) found the business climate in Bulgaria in April 2019 improved

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Bulgaria 

Unemployment in Bulgaria 4.6% in March 2019, youth unemployment up

April 30, 2019May 1, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria was 4.6 per cent in March 2019, down from 4.7 per cent a month earlier and from

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Bulgaria 

Twenty-two per cent of Bulgarians below poverty line in 2018 – statistics institute

April 30, 2019May 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Twenty-two per cent of Bulgarians were below the poverty line in 2018, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on April

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Business 

Bulgaria 19th in the European Union in self-employed people – Eurostat

April 30, 2019May 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Of the total 3.14 million people in employment in Bulgaria in 2018, about 342 100 were self-employed, European Union statistics

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