Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2025 All Rights Reserved

Recovery plan could help boost Bulgaria’s GDP by around 20%: Tomislav Donchev

Tomislav Donchev
Photo: BGNES

During discussions at the presentation of the second pillar of the Recovery and Sustainability Plan – Green Bulgaria – Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev stated that Bulgaria must set itself the aim of increasing its Gross Domestic Product by around 20%, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports.

Tomislav Dopnchev emphasized that Bulgaria entered the EU with a GDP close to 31% of the European average, but that now its GDP has reached 51%. The aim is for the country to reach the 70% mark within 10 years. Donchev indicated that the Recovery and Sustainability Plan will be instrumental to this. 



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Bulgarian President supports US efforts for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine

China is the big winner from the EU sanctions policy against Russia, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev told CNN. Regarding the war in Ukraine, Radev thinks that the moment is approaching when “Ukraine may be left without enough people..

published on 6/11/25 10:00 AM

Checks will continue to be carried out on the Bulgarian-Romanian border until June 30

After March 31, 2024, those crossing the internal air and sea borders, and from January 1, 2025 – also people crossing the land borders of Bulgaria with countries that fully implement the Schengen rules, are not subject to border..

published on 6/11/25 9:23 AM

President Radev thinks that the time for a referendum on the euro has not passed yet

Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I strongly believe in democracy with my proposal for a referendum on the introduction of the euro in Bulgaria. This is what President Rumen Radev told Richard Quest from CNN after the opening of the..

published on 6/11/25 9:06 AM