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Unemployment in Bulgaria in September 2019 was 4.1 per cent, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said on October 31, citing seasonally-adjusted figures. The figure represented about 137 000 people, up […]
Bulgaria had the third-lowest tax-to-GDP ratio in the European Union in 2018, at 29.9 per cent, according to the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat ...
A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) found a gloomier business climate in October 2019. Previous polls had ...
Bulgaria issued 11 864 first residence permits in 2018, up from 10 958 in 2017 and 7942 in 2016, according to figures released by European Union stati ...
The refusal by the European Union to open membership talks with the Republic of North Macedonia has led to an impression of euroskepticism returning in the region, the Sofia-based Euro-Atlantic […]
Five people have been charged for participating in an organised crime group trafficking migrants from Turkey through Bulgaria to Serbia and Western Europe, Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office said on October 23. […]
The latest European Commission report on Bulgaria’s progress under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), which said that the progress made by Bulgaria under the CVM is sufficient to meet […]
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva met her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on October 21 during a visit to Moscow, the first by a Bulgarian foreign minister to the Russian capital […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will propose early parliamentary elections to be held in North Macedonia as soon as possible, after EU leaders failed to approve the start of accession negotiations. […]
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first eight months of the year stood at 603.5 million euro, the equivalent of one per cent of the gross domestic product, statistics […]
