68% of the households in the country live on an income below the subsistence level.
In 2019 this percentage was 72, which means that the socially targeted measures during the crisis are having a certain positive effect, indicates an analysis by the Institute for Social and Trade Union Research of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria. During the third quarter of the year a 4-member household needs 1,282 euro per month, or 320.5 euro per member for a life without luxury. Two million people in Bulgaria continue to subsist on an income of below 186 euro per month, which is close to the poverty line.
An orange code warning for dangerous precipitation has been issued for seven districts in Central Bulgaria. From midnight on Wednesday, precipitation and the risk of hail will move from the west to central and south-western Bulgaria. After noon, the..
BGN 50 million (€25.51 million) will be granted to Bulgarian Posts postal operator, after the European Commission approved, under EU state aid rules, Bulgaria's plans to grant state aid to the company in order to restore its viability. Bulgarian..
"Fear is shaking DPS. I'm talking about the apparatus," Korman Ismailov, former head of the youth organisation of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), told BNR. According to him, the party, which came second in June's parliamentary elections,..
Bulgaria’s national team of mathematics put up an excellent performance at the Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad. Six Bulgarian students returned from..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev handed the first cabinet-forming mandate to Rossen Zhelyazkov who is the prime minister-designate of the largest..
On Tuesday the weather will be sunny and hot over most of the country. Clouds will form over Western and Central Bulgaria in the afternoon and there..
Partly cloudy, chance of rain
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