A new draft law on the state budget for 2025 will be submitted to the Council of Ministers by 14 February, along with draft laws on the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund and the State Social Insurance Fund. This was promised by Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova at the meeting of the Joint Governance Council. According to the Finance Ministry's analysis, the state budget deficit for the first quarter of 2025 will be around BGN 3.634 bn. (EUR 1.858 billion).
During the budget debate, the Council discussed the implementation of a number of measures to combat the grey economy and agreed not to cut public sector wages and social benefits and not to raise taxes. Bulgaria's entry into the euro area remains a priority.
The legal trial of the deaths of 18 refugees who died of suffocation in a truck found near the Sofia village of Lokorsko in February 2023 cannot begin . The reason is the lack of a response from the embassy in Afghanistan. It is not clear when the trial..
The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), which is part of Sofia University, will be a co-organizer of the Physics-IQ Challenge competition, the university announced. The competition will be part of the..
US investors are in Sofia this week for talks with Bulgarian authorities on the expansion of the Chiren gas storage facility in northwestern Bulgaria - a project that could become a new battleground between supporters and opponents of Russian natural gas..
Job offers in all sectors of the Bulgarian economy are decreasing in July, according to the analysis of a leading online job posting platform in the..
Amendments to Bulgaria’s Road Traffic Law, published in today's issue of the State Gazette, will come into force in one month. From 5 September,..
A dead Egyptian vulture was found near the village of Hrastovo in Krumovgrad municipality , the press center of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry..
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