According to a recent survey of the National Statistical Institute, industrial production and retail trade saw an improvement in November 2016. NSI also reports on an unexpected growth in construction. In November last year the Industrial Production Index in Bulgaria increased with 1.6% as compared to the previous month. Meanwhile, the Construction Production Index rose by 4.7% as compared to October 2016. In November 2016 the turnover in retail trade excluding trade of automobiles and motorcycles increased with 0.9% as compared to October 2016, while turnover in trade saw an increase of 6.1% on an annual basis.
The truck traffic on the Maritsa highway to the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is now normalized. "As of this morning, there are no more queues of trucks standing on the roadway waiting to cross the border," assured..
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, searches have been carried out in Sofia, Burgas, Petrich and Rila in connection with an investigation into alleged fraud with EU funds in the restoration of a church. In 2017, a public tender..
One million and eight hundred Bulgarian citizens travelled as tourists during the third quarter of the year, National Statistical Institute data show. 72.3% of them travelled inside the country, 20.8% travelled abroad and 6.9% - both inside Bulgaria..
“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
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