In 2023, the government budget deficit was 2% of GDP or €1.9 billion. This is indicated by the final data of the National Statistical Institute. This is a significant narrowing of the budget deficit compared to the previous 3 years. In 2020 it stood at 3.8% of GDP, in 2021 it reached 3.9% of GDP and in 2022 it shrank to 2.9% of GDP.
Bulgaria's public debt in 2023 amounted to EUR 21.439 billion or 22.9% of the country's GDP, after shrinking to 22.5% of GDP in 2022, the National Statistical Institute reports.This is one of the lowest debt ratios among EU countries.
We are moving towards the option of not having a quickly adopted budget for 2025, Lachezar Bogdanov, chief economist from the Institute for Market Economics, told BNR. In presenting the institute's alternative state budget, the..
Bulgaria and India will intensify their cooperation in various sectors of mutual interest. This was discussed at a meeting of the Bulgarian Minister of Economy Petko Nikolov with Ambassador of India to Bulgaria H.E. Sanjay Rana. The two focused..
On October 31, 2024, 10 business leaders in Bulgaria founded the first Bulgarian-Czech Chamber of Commerce in the country. At the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Sofia, in the presence of Martin Dvořák, Minister of European Affairs of the Czech..
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