60,000 businesses have stopped working because of the crisis. Only 228 of them requested assistance under the scheme that provides for 60% of the salaries of the staff to be paid by the state and 40% by the employers. The Association of Bulgarian Employers' Organizations calls for the 60/40 scheme to be overhauled. The money should be transferred directly to the workers' accounts. During this period, no social insurance contributions should be paid, but time should be as counted contributory service, nationally represented business organizations said.
Bulgaria will allow a plane carrying Vladimir Putin to fly through its airspace to facilitate a planned meeting between the Russian leader and U.S. President Donald Trump in Budapest, said Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev, as..
On Tuesday , the lowest temperatures will be between 2 and 7°C. In the valleys and high fields the temperature can drop to minus 2°C; in Sofia – about 1°C. In the morning, there will be reduced visibility along the river valleys. It..
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has carried out searches in the Municipality of Plovdiv and in a company suspected of public procurement fraud related to the improvement of urban green and public spaces in the city, the EP..
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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