According to preliminary data, Bulgaria’s Gross Domestic Product in the fourth quarter of 2016 amounts to 25.8 billion Leva at current prices or 3,616 Leva per capita of the population. In euro, that makes 13.191 million, or 1,849 euro per capita of the population, indicate data by the National Statistical Institute on key indices of Bulgaria. During the fourth quarter of 2016, the unemployment rate stood at 6.7 percent or 214,000 people. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2015 the number of unemployed persons is down by 46,000 and the unemployment rate – by 1.2 percentage points.
Suspicions of large-scale fraud with EU funds in a project to build a mussel farm in the Black Sea – southeast of Cape Emine in the municipality of Nessebar, have prompted an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office...
President Rumen Radev welcomed Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok in Smolyan. The guest visited the Bulgarian home of Hungarian poet, translator and artist László Nagy in the city in the Rhodopes. On October 20, the two presidents held..
Bulgaria, Greece and Romania have finalized a memorandum for joint cooperation on new transport projects, said European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism Apostolos Tzitzikostas. He stated that an agreement for the..
In September, Bulgaria was mentioned as a country connected with dangerous food 7 times, indicate data of the European Rapid Alert System for Food and..
The legal heirs of the people who lost their lives during the flooding in the region of Burgas at the beginning of October will receive 15,000 leva (EUR..
A meeting of the coalition partners took place early this morning, during a sitting of the National Assembly, to discuss the possible reformatting of..
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