Bulgaria is in 53rd position out of 64 countries in the Global Competitiveness Yearbook 2021 of the Swiss Institute for Management Development (IMD), dropping 5 positions compared to 2020 and 15 compared to 2009.
The principal challenges Bulgaria’s competitiveness faces are political instability, slow vaccination rate, limited access to e-government, slow energy transition and high energy costs to businesses. Other problem areas include quality of university education, brain drain and low spending on scientific activity and research and development as well as durable problems in administration and corruption.
The son of the US President - Donald Trump Jr. and Gila Gamliel, Minister of Science and Technology of Israel, will participate in a business forum in Sofia on April 27, organized by the global digital asset platform Nexo , the company announced...
On January 1, 2026, Bulgaria will take over the presidency of the Danube Strategy for the second time (after 2018) . This is happening at a difficult time for Europe, a time when the world is changing rapidly, when it is more important than ever..
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev had a telephone conversation with Polish President Andrzej Duda ahead of the upcoming Three Seas Initiative Summit in Warsaw. Radev highlighted the importance and potential of bilateral industrial cooperation, including..
A peaceful civic protest under the motto “Protecting our children – car procession and blocking traffic on Danube Bridge” will take place on Saturday...
On Saturday lows will be between 5 and 10°C, around 7°C in Sofia. Before noon it will be mostly sunny and calm. In the afternoon there will be isolated..
Vice President Iliana Iotova is paying a visit to Grasse, France at the invitation of the town mayor Mayor Jerome Viaud and the local cultural..
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