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Proposed new rules to ensure that house buyers are properly informed before taking on a mortgage were approved by the European Parliament economic and monetary affairs committee on June 7 […]
Despite making the issue a priority ever since the current Cabinet took office, the Finance Ministry now appears unlikely to push forward with reform of civil service pensions, news website […]
Bulgaria’s budget and foreign policy committees approved at a joint meeting on June 6 the Government draft bill for a 950 million euro bonds issue. If passed, the bill will […]
Bulgaria’s economy posted zero growth in the first quarter of the year, data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) showed on June 6. In real terms, gross domestic product (GDP) […]
Credit ratings agency Standard&Poor’s has described the odds that Greece will exit the euro zone following the June 17 parliamentary elections as “at least a one-in-three chance”. “This could be […]
Bulgaria’s Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Delyan Dobrev, said on June 4 2012 that amendments to competition protection legislation on an alleged cartel among large grocery retail chains will […]
Houses in rural areas and apartments on lower floors are most sought after inBulgaria, because people believe that such dwellings are safer during earthquakes, according to a May 2012 market […]
As the owner of a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), and as an individual consumer of financial services, I am always amazed by the standard fees that financial institutions charge […]
Bulgaria will spend 16.7 billion leva over the next decade to erase the development inequality within the country and to catch up with the European Union average, according to the […]
Three European Parliament committees voted against the Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty Agreement (ACTA) on May 31, only a day after Dutch parliament soundly rejected the treaty. Dutch MPs not only shot down […]
