The Bulgarian Parliament adopted at first reading the budget for 2019. The budget passed at first reading with the votes of GERB and United Patriots, of one MP from "Volya" and one independent MP. The BSP and the DPS voted against. The priorities of Budget 2019 are social policy, education, defense and income policy. The planned deficit is 0.5% of GDP. GDP growth is projected to reach 3.7% in 2019 due to stronger public investment and public consumption and keep level of 3.5% in the 2020-2021 period. Unemployment is expected to fall to 4.8% next year. Government debt is expected to decrease from BGN 22.2 billion in 2019 to a level of BGN 22.0 billion by the end of 2021.
The Parliamentary Committee on Tourism has adopted at first reading the Bill for Amendments to the Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act, submitted by Manoil Manev and Temenuzhka Petkova from the GERB-SDS parliamentary group, which..
The leader of GERB, Boyko Borissov, announced that a second "assemblage" with "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" after the elections cannot exist. In response to a journalist's question regarding an accusation made by..
61% of parents in Bulgaria support mandatory vaccines and 95% of general practitioners advise parents to vaccinate their children, in order to protect them from a number of diseases. This is shown by a nationally representative..
Hail storm caused huge damage in the regions of Plovdiv, Haskovo, Stara Zagora and Sliven. No people were injured but crops in many..
On Saturday, minimum temperatures in the country will be between 5 and 10°C, around 5°C in Sofia. The morning will be sunny. In the afternoon it will be..
Ground forces military personnel destroyed an unexploded ordnance found yesterday in Vazrazhdane residential area of Sofia, the press service of the..
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