After a meeting with the president, We Continue the Change party stated the caretaker cabinet must submit a draft budget for 2023 to the National Assembly.
The deadline for submitting a budget for next year is today, 31 October. At an extraordinary meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation, Finance Minister in the caretaker government Rositza Velkova stated that the budget is the country’s financial plan and the government programme of the majority which has not yet been formed. In her words, there has never been a caretaker government under which a state budget has been adopted. At the Council meeting, the cabinet proposed, to the social partners and the employers, a bill on extending the implementation of the old, 2022 budget until a new, regular government is formed.
In 2024, 8.2% of people aged 18 or over who declared to be at work (either employed or self-employed) in the EU were at risk of poverty, according to data from Eurostat, cited by the BNR's Horizont channel. In Bulgaria, this share reached 11.8%. The..
The two largest trade unions in Bulgaria - the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria and the Confederation of Trade Unions "Podkrepa" - are organizing a warning protest in front of the Council of Ministers building. It is planned for..
In view of the country's declining population, the Fiscal Council recommends that the government take savings measures in the 2026 state budget. The measures include: reducing the municipal administration by merging municipalities;..
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bulgaria posted the largest net inflows from the Netherlands, Italy and Greece in the first half of 2025, the Bulgarian..
KBC Group expects the Bulgarian economy to grow slightly more next year in comparison to its previous forecasts, according to the..
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