Section: Bulgaria
Bulgarians Complete More Holiday Trips, Excursions Abroad in June
In the month of June, Bulgarians completed 468 319 trips abroad, which represented an increase of 13.9 % compared to the same month last year. This is shown by the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Monday. There was an increase in the number of trips made by Bulgarians to Turkey, Greece, Germany,...
Mogherini’s visit to Bulgaria – new messages to EU Members
On Thursday, the traditional annual meeting of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov with Bulgarian ambassadors across the world was held in Sofia and was characterized by an unusual visit. For the first time a special guest of the meeting was the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. She brought...
Bulgarian Producers Lose BGN 82 M over Russian Food Imports Ban
Bulgarian farmers have suffered BGN 82 M (EUR 41 M) in lost revenue as a result of the Russian ban on food imports from the West, Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva said on Sunday. Since Moscow banned food imports from the EU, the US, Canada, Norway and Australia in August 2014 in response to Western sanctions against Russia over its...
Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association Head Sees Signs of Fragile Economic Recovery
Vasil Velev, Chair of the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association (BICA), has rejected allegations of an upward trend in corporate bankruptcies, stressing that H1, 2015 data testifies to the opposite. Bulgaria’s Registry Agency announced on July 16 that the number of bankruptcies had gone up by 34% on the year in H1, 2015 to a total of 341...
Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association Head Sees Signs of Fragile Economic Revitalization
Vasil Velev, Chair of the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association (BICA), has rejected allegations of an upward trend in corporate bankruptcies, stressing that H1, 2015 data testifies to the opposite. Bulgaria’s Registry Agency announced on July 16 that the number of bankruptcies had gone up by 34% on the year in H1, 2015 to a total of 341...
Bourgas hosts Open Chess Championship for Eastern Europe
Bourgas hosted the Open Chess Championship for Eastern Europe in which more than 120 players from 8 countries competed – Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria. This was the first edition of the Open Chess Championship for Eastern Europe which is part of the initiatives marking Bourgas – European City of...
Daniel Mitov discusses in US the state of Bulgaria’s judicial system
The state of the judicial system in Bulgaria was one of the main topics discussed during the working visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Daniel Mitov in the US. Asked about the possibilities for American investments in Bulgaria, Mitov said in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio that one of the major concerns of American business is...
US – Bulgarian relations in one of their best phases, Foreign Minister Mitov says
Six months after the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to Sofia, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov is on a working visit to the USA for a review of the strategic dialogue between both states. In January Kerry and Mitov agreed that the dialogue should take place within the frameworks of 4 working groups – on security and...
Yordan Bozhilov: “Bulgaria is not directly threatened by the situation in Ukraine or the Middle East”
On 13-15 July, Sofia hosts a Summer Academy in leadership within the framework of the Sofia Security Forum. This NGO is a platform for research and discussion of topical issues in the field of international and national security. Its chairman and analyst at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Yordan Bozhilov, commented in an interview for Radio...
Number of Russian and Ukrainian tourists visiting Bulgaria dwindles significantly
The number of the Russian and the Ukrainian tourist visiting the Bulgarian seacoast has dwindled significantly, the General Secretary of the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association Veselin Nalbantov announced. In his view, the decline was expected, because these people live in military areas and have become poorer due to the military conflicts...
