From January to March 2020, Bulgarian exports fell by 1.1% compared to the same period in 2019. Exported goods totaled over 7 billion euros, according to national statistics.
The biggest contraction was in March at 8.8%, when exports reached 2.244 billion euros. Imports of goods in the first quarter also declined by 1.1% compared to 2019. In March 2020, total imports of goods dropped by 6.3 percent and amounted to 2.56 billion euros. Foreign trade balance for the first quarter was negative at EUR 747 million.
Eurostat announced that in March 2020, industrial production in Bulgaria shrank by 5.1% compared to February. Industrial production in the EU in March fell by 10.4 percent on a monthly basis.
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The Finance Ministry has confirmed that Minister Petkova will participate in the Eurogroup meeting on 17..
Minimum temperatures on Monday will be between minus 4 and 1°C. In Sofia it will be around minus 3°C. The mercury will hover between -3 and 0 °C in the north. Maximum temperatures in southern Bulgaria will be between 2 and 7°C. In the capital it will..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It was organised by the movement "For a Free Russia" - an association of Russian immigrants in..
Kristiyan Vladov and Stefan Kyurkchiev of the Plovdiv Museum of Natural History are working on a project to bring live fish from the southern Arctic..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It..
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The..
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