In its latest Global Competitiveness Report for 2016-2017, which the World Economic Forum releases every other year, Bulgaria has climbed four notches up to 50th position.
This result places the country behind other East European countries like: Estonia (30), Poland (36), Russia (43) and Latvia (49), but ahead of Turkey (55), Romania(62), Slovakia (65), Hungary (69) and Croatia (74). Neighbouring Serbia is 90th.
President Rumen Radev called for decisive action against vote-buying and its instigators during a meeting with representatives of the institutions responsible for conducting the elections. Caretaker Minister of Interior Atanas Ilkov, caretaker..
The Council of Ministers has approved the allocation of €50 000 in humanitarian aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of the population following the devastating floods on 4 October. The funds will be provided..
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has proposed that a decision on the full membership of Bulgaria and Romania in the Schengen area be adopted by the end of the year. He said this today when presenting the programme of Hungary's rotating EU..
Bulgarian farmers remain ready to protest due to delayed payments under the so-called "Ukrainian aid". The government has paid BGN 200 million (EUR 102..
A commemorative ceremony was held at the Sofia Synagogue to mark one year since the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian movement Hamas against..
On Wednesday, the lowest temperatures will be between 6 and 11°C; in Sofia - about 8°C. The highest will be between 23 and 28°C; in..
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