On 1 January 2015 people aged over 80 in Bulgarian numbered a little over 331,000 or around 4.6 percent of the population, a Eurostat analysis shows. In the space of ten years the number of Bulgarians aged over 80 has gone up by almost 87,000. According to National Statistical Institute forecasts in 50 years’ time the number of 80 to 99 year olds will have gone up by another 100,000.
The Director of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, Raina Mandzhukova, provided books free of charge for the fund of the Bulgarian Department in the Library of Congress in the US , the agency announced. The donation includes specialized literature for..
The Bulgarian Embassy in the USA has no reports about the presence of Bulgarian citizens on board the plane that crashed in Washington on the night of January 30, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced. The Bulgarian diplomatic mission in..
Bulgaria's Minister of Tourism, Miroslav Borshosh, has held a series of meetings with business organizations in the tourism industry . The main topics of the talks were the need to introduce a Tourist Guarantee Fund, the fight against the gray sector..
Seven years after buying the Denny ice cream factory in Veliko Tarnovo, London-based multinational Unilever is closing the plant. The company did not give..
Bulgaria is well advanced in the process of meeting the criteria for joining the Eurozone, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said during..
By a government decision, as of today an interdepartmental council is being set up for the screening of foreign direct investments. It will examine..
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