One in three pensioners in Bulgaria is at risk of poverty, data of Eurostat about 2017 show. Bulgaria places 4th in the EU under this indicator. A total of 32.4% of the Bulgarian pensioners, including the people who retired due to an illness, are at risk of poverty. Their number is highest in the past 8 years, the survey also reads. Estonia (46.1% risk of poverty rate), Latvia (43.7% risk of poverty rate) and Lithuania (36.7% risk of poverty rate) are top the poverty risk ranking. The French pensioners are at lowest risk of poverty (7% risk of poverty rate). In 2017 the proportion of pensioners at risk of poverty in the European Union was estimated at 14.2%. The rate has been rising gradually since 2013 when it was 12.6%.
Bulgarian short animated film “The Artist’s Daughter” will be presented today in Tokyo as part of the EU Film Days, BTA reports. The animation is part of the festival program in the “Memory and History” section. “The Artist’s..
Doctors without a speciality and nurses should receive a minimum wage of 150% of the average salary in the country. This was proposed at a round table in the National Assembly by protesting doctors from the “Future in Bulgaria”..
The Sultanate of Oman's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, will visit Bulgaria from 2 to 4 July 2025 at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart, Georg Georgiev, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday...
The Sultanate of Oman's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, will visit Bulgaria from 2 to 4 July 2025 at the invitation of his..
The European Commission has announced that the EU will invest nearly €37.5 million in the construction and modernisation of six parking areas with a..
The plenary debate on the third motion of no confidence against Rosen Zhelyazkov's government, proposed by the Revival party, has concluded . According to..
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