The family business in Bulgaria has expanded. In the past 2 years 1,219 new companies have been registered in this country. The number of people employed at these companies increased with over 15,000 people (3.8%), the national statistical reads. The family entrepreneurs mainly live in the district cities and the small Bulgarian towns, whereas in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, they are only 5% of the business. There are over 104,000 family enterprises in Bulgaria, which are represented in all sectors of the economy. They employ over 414,000 people. Over 40,000 companies (39% of all family companies) are registered in trade, followed by craft companies and freelancers.
Bulgaria will not yet request an extraordinary convergence report - a key step towards joining the eurozone. This was announced by Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova from the rostrum in Parliament. She said that during her meetings with the EU..
On the eve of February 1 - the day on which Bulgaria pays homage to the victims of the communist regime - the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) party announced that it was tabling a bill for the removal of all monuments that symbolise..
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC) is the only representative of the country's traditional Eastern Orthodoxy. This was decided by MPs in the final amendments to the Law on Religious Denominations. The amendment, which states that only the BOC can use the..
Economists and financiers have started a petition demanding that a request for an extraordinary convergence report on the introduction of the euro in..
The Deputy Chairman of VMRO, Carlos Contrera, called for a boycott of large food chains in Bulgaria ''because of high prices''. His call on Facebook..
Bulgaria’s consul to Sweden Stefan Stoykov has met with the eight Bulgarian sailors, members of the crew of the ship Vezhen suspected of sabotaging a..
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