The Bulgarian National Bank has said that at the end of February 2016 deposits of the non-governmental sector in the Bulgarian banking system were to the tune of 63.947 billion leva /32.88 billion euro/ or 70.4% of the GDP equal to an annual growth of 8.3%. In the meantime, bank deposits of households and the non-profit organizations that service them amounted to 42.902 billion leva /22 billion euro/ or 47.3% of GDP tantamount to an annual growth of 6.7%. For the same period bank loans of the two categories of bank customers saw an annual decrease of 2% and 1.7% respectively.
At 12 noon today, to the sound of sirens, people around the country paid tribute to the memory of revolutionary poet Hristo Botev and all people who have laid their lives for the freedom of Bulgaria, by standing still in the course of 2 minutes...
At a meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov stressed that the country is on the eve of the adoption of the Euro, which will start a new chapter for Bulgaria’s economy...
More than 2,000 post offices in small towns and villages will exchange Leva for Euro from the day Bulgarian joins the Eurozone, Stanimir Belinov, deputy director of Bulgaria’s national postal service Bulgarian Posts said for the BNR. Every customer..
The introduction of the euro will not affect household electricity prices, Energy Minister Zhecho Stankov told BNR. He added that from the day Bulgaria..
Pope Leo XIV appeared last night in the Vatican Gardens wearing an omophorion gifted to him by Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov , the Catholic..
Nearly one in three children in Bulgaria lives in material deprivation, according to data from the National Statistical Institute for last year, reported..
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