A total of 50 Bulgarian companies and more than 100 individual owners are present in the Panama Papers, accessible via the Internet. Some 102 addresses of firms, most of them in the cities of Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv, are included in the documents. Among the names of owners of offshore companies are Bulgarian businessmen Vasil Bozhkov, Todor Batkov, Peter Mandzhukov, as well as Eugenia and Nikolai Banevs. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists warns that is was possible for names to match.
Birth rate in Bulgaria has decreased by 33% over the past three decades. In 1994, 79,442 live births were registered in the country, while in 2024 the number dropped to 53,428. 6.5% of Bulgarian children are now born through in vitro fertilization..
The majority in parliament overcame the president's veto on the Investment Promotion Act. The bill was passed in second reading on October 24, but President Rumen Radev vetoed parts of it, arguing that the proposed rules specifically..
Deputy Prime Ministers and Ministers of Transport Grozdan Karadzhov and Aleksandar Nikoloski signed an agreement in Gyueshevo for the construction of a railway tunnel between Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia. The facility..
The European Commission has presented a proposal for developing high-speed railway lines within the EU until 2040, linking the capitals in the EU, among..
The European Commission has decided to withhold EUR 215 million from the second payment under Bulgaria’s recovery and resilience plan, the EC told the..
Prokopan is the only railway tunnel on the Plovdiv-Burgas line. This became clear during a visit by Deputy Minister of Transport Lyuben Nanov, who was..
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