More than 156,000 employees from 10, 723 enterprises will keep their jobs thanks to the 60/40 wage support scheme, the Bulgarian Ministry of Labor and Social Policy announced. So far, the National Employment Agency has processed nearly 3,700 applications of Bulgarian employers for state aid which has to cover 60% of the salaries and the social security contributions of over 50,000 workers. The National Social Security Institute has paid EUR 6.4 million in compensations to more than 3,000 companies. The funds were used to pay the wages of nearly 40,000 employees. During the last payment a total of 516 employers received over EUR 750,000 which helped nearly 5,000 workers keep their jobs.
During her visit to London, Vice President Iliana Iotova met with Deputy Mayor Joanne McCartney. McCartney is also the Deputy Mayor for Children and Families. The meeting focused on the difficulties faced by a section of the Bulgarian..
Renegotiation of Bulgaria's EU membership has been demanded in a declaration on behalf of the Vazrazhdane parliamentary group by the party leader Kostadin Kostadinov . According to him, EU membership does not meet Bulgaria's interests. At the..
Bulgaria welcomes the agreement on a ceasefire in Ukraine reached between the delegations of Kiev and Washington, who met in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. This is clear from a post by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov on the social network X. The..
Vazrazhdane party has sent a formal request to President Rumen Radev to call a referendum on keeping the Bulgarian Lev , the party’s leader Kostadin..
A yellow code for strong wind has been issued for 18 regions of Bulgaria on Tuesday . The minimum temperatures will be 4 to 9°C, around 4°C in Sofia...
The Central Election Commission (CEC) must carry out the re-calculation of the election results it has been tasked with by the Constitutional Court...
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