In 2017 Bulgaria will receive direct payments of up to EUR 750 million from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund. The budget exceeds EUR 1 billion, if the money under three schemes for transitional national aid and some of the financial measures of the Rural Development Programme is added to that amount, Bulgaria’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food announced. The Agriculture Ministry specified that Bulgarian farmers will be able to make applications for EU subsidies as of next week.
Plamen Dimitrov, president of Bulgaria’s largest trade union, the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB), has warned of a potential shortfall of around 17–18 billion leva (EUR 8.7–9.2 billion) in next year’s draft budget...
North Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said his government will not unconditionally recognise Bulgarians in the country’s constitution. “Nobody has the right to expect this government to make constitutional changes unconditionally,” he told..
‘The Bulgarian Rectors’ Council has proposed the creation of Danube University Alliances,’ said Professor Miglena Temelkova, the Council's chair, at the ‘Days of Bulgaria in Kecskemét, Hungary’ forum. The idea is for the alliances to include..
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