The caretaker government is proposing a state budget bill for 2023 with a deficit of 6.4% of the GDP, or more than twice the 3% required by the Eurozone criteria . This was announced at a briefing by Prime Minister Galab Donev and Finance Minister..
The national priorities must be Schengen membership by the end of this year, entering the Eurozone by January 2025 and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) by 2026, said the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association..
Officially, the total inflation in Bulgaria for the past two years stands at over 28%, and it has impacted every household in Bulgaria. Against the backdrop of this figure, the trade unions in the country are demanding that all people, whose salaries..
The Ministry of Finance approved a concept of a draft bill of the state budget for 2023, according to which a deficit of 3% will be attained by raising some taxes, dropping preferential VAT as of mid-2023, and raising toll fees, as well as raising..
The Ministry of Finance presented a concept for a 2023 draft budget with a 3% deficit. The draft sets down a 10% increase in budgetary sector salaries in the sectors in which this has not yet been done. The draft also envisages the imposition..
Finance Minister in the caretaker cabinet Rositza Velkova has asked the ministries, by letter, to cut expenditure by 20% due to a risk to the budget, Trud and 24 Chasa write in their online versions. The cause for concern is the..
Moody’s credit ratings agency has affirmed the long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Bulgaria at ‘Baa1’ with a stable outlook , the Ministry of Finance announced. According to the agency, the country can still..
Raising the minimum wage from EUR 363 to EUR 435 is a very high increase, interim Finance Minister Rositsa Velkova told BNR. She exlained that a rise of 5 euros leads to a budget deficit of 25.5 million euros. There should be an increase, but not like..
Calculated on the basis of the 2022 budget submitted, the deficit for this year is envisaged at 4.1%, commented Kiril Ananiev from GERB party at a briefing, as quoted by BTA. However, Kiril Ananiev says, that is not the real figure because at..
Even though the deficit will exceed the criteria for entry into the Eurozone, Bulgaria maintains the objective of introducing the single currency in 2024. This is made clear by the convergence programme for the 2021-2023 period voted by the..
