A 2016 Eurostat poll on social trends and poverty indexes within the EU has found out that some 2.5 mln. Bulgarians, or nearly 35% of the population, lived in poverty. The agency sees the term as impossibility for unhindered payment of monthly utilities and the coverage of unexpected expenses, central heating of the entire house, an access to TV, car and a cell phone, regular meals or at least a week of holiday away from home. Some 7.8% of the EU population faced poverty in 2016, the poll says.
Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev has started consultations with the candidates for caretaker prime minister. President Radev hands ITN the third cabinet-forming mandate, they hand it back to him unfulfilled Under the constitutional changes from..
53% of Internet users in Bulgaria (over 2,800,000 people) are online shoppers , while in 2018-2019 they were a third of this figure. The Covid-19 pandemic gave a big boost to e-commerce in Bulgaria. This was announced by Janet Naydenova from the..
There Is Such a People (ITN) thanked President Rumen Radev for placing his trust in them, and handed the third and last mandate for forming a cabinet back to him unfulfilled. Nikolay Denkov, PP-DB: It is up to the Bulgarian citizens to..
The European Commission has closed the investigation of a public procurement for the supply of Chinese trains to Bulgaria. This happened after the..
''We will return the government-forming mandate unfulfilled'', We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria Co-chairman Kiril Petkov said for bTV...
The three regions in the European Union with the highest standardised death rate in 2021 were all in Bulgaria, EU statistics agency Eurostat said. In..
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