Over 25,000 foreign nationals settled in Bulgaria in 2015. 25% of them arrived from Turkey, 15% came from Syria and nearly 14%-from the Russian Federation. The rest arrived from other countries, including EU member states. On the other hand, nearly 30,000 Bulgarians emigrated in 2015. Most of them were young people in active age. 17.5% of the people who left Bulgaria and settled abroad were aged twenty or under. Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain are the three most-preferred destinations for Bulgarian migrants. The national statistics reports about a very interesting trend with regard to the internal migration- over 37% of the Bulgarians changed their urban lifestyle for life in Bulgarian villages.
Experts from the Royal Netherlands Police are in Sofia for a series of trainings for their Bulgarian colleagues from the Border Police in the field of identification of forged documents. The organisation of the programme started last year after a visit..
The Ukrainian Rada today approved the purchase of two reactors from Bulgaria for the expansion of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant, Bulgarian media reported. The reactors, which Bulgaria bought from Russia in 2015 for the unfinished Belene NPP, were..
In 2023, there were 7.7 million female scientists and engineers in the EU, with Bulgaria among the top three countries, according to Eurostat data . The proportion of women scientists and engineers in 2023 varied widely across the EU, with the highest..
Bulgaria is participating at the Lisbon Food Affair (LFA) – the largest food trade fair in Portugal, which opened today and will run until..
From February 10 to 22, the largest NATO military exercise of the year, Steadfast Dart - 2025 (STDT25), will be held in the areas of the Tsrancha..
By the end of September, Bulgaria will receive eight F-16 Block 70 fighter jets, Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov has told Nova..
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