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.
On Friday, the lowest temperatures will be between 6 and 11°C. In Sofia it will be around 8°C. In the morning hours visibility will be reduced in the plains. Before noon in most of the country it will be sunny. In the afternoon,..
At a meeting with acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov, relatives of those killed in accidents once again demanded a faster trial and harsher punishments for those convicted. Parents from the “Angels on the Road”..
One hundred days after the start of its work, the government of Rosen Zhelyazkov enjoys the approval of 19.2% of Bulgarian citizens, while 66% of them express a negative attitude, according to data of sociological agency "Myara"...
A peaceful civic protest under the motto “Protecting our children – car procession and blocking traffic on Danube Bridge” will take place on Saturday...
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..
Young Catholics from all over the country met at the Saint Francis of Assisi church in the village of Belozem, Rakovski municipality, to join, online,..
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