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Dutch-registered telecoms and media company United Group said on July 31 that it has closed the deal to buy Vivacom, one of Bulgaria’s three major telecom operators. Announced in November […]
Sofia District Administrative Court has ruled in favour of Bulgarian insurance and asset management group Eurohold Holding in its appeal against the C ...
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Transport Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov attended on July 22 the signing of the concession contract for ...
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first five months of the year stood at 169.5 million euro, the equivalent of 0.3 per cent of the gross do ...
Bulgaria’s Transport Ministry has extended the deadline for bids in the concession tender for Plovdiv Airport until October 12, a notice on the ministry’s tender website said. The previous deadline […]
Bulgaria’s National Assembly approved at second reading on July 9 a bill to amend the State Reserve and War-time Storage Act, which creates a new State Petroleum Company, tasked with […]
The European Commission lowered further its economic growth expectations for 2020 in the summer forecast released on July 7, but said early data suggested “the worst may have passed” and […]
Bulgaria’s retail trade turnover dropped 19.9 per cent in April 2020 compared with the same month of 2019, the National Statistical Institute said on June 9, releasing figures that showed […]
Business sentiment in Bulgaria staged something of a recovery in May 2020 after plummeting in April to its lowest level in 23 years, according to the results of a monthly […]
Bulgaria had the largest drop in retail trade in the European Union in March 2020 compared with February, at 18.1 per cent, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on May 8. […]
