A total of 1,917,500 foreign nationals visited Bulgaria in August 2016, which was 10.9% more as compared to the same period last year, the National Statistical Institute informs. The number of foreign citizens visiting Bulgaria for a holiday saw 18.4% increase and the number of foreign guests who arrived in Bulgaria on a business trip increased with 8.7% year on year. 60.8% of all foreign visitors were citizens of EU, which was 16.5% more as compared to August 2015. The number of people visiting Bulgaria from non-EU countries saw a 3.7% increase. The number of Russian guests increased with 20.2% year on year.
Bulgaria has received encouraging signals at the Eurogroup meeting. "The country has made even greater progress in fulfilling the price stability criterion," said European Commissioner for the Economy Valdis Dombrovskis. When..
The Consulate General of Bulgaria in Toronto announced that it has organized a crisis headquarters and is monitoring the situation with the plane crash at Pearson Airport in the Canadian city. A plane from Minneapolis to Toronto..
The decision to send troops to Ukraine is an exclusive prerogative of the parliament. This is stated in the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, following a request made by the US to European countries. Questions about..
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The..
The Bulgarian Ministry of Tourism will work to create a map of important, but hard-to-reach tourist and cultural-historical sites. The goal is then to..
The latest technological solutions, products and projects in the field of agriculture and agro-industry will be presented at the "Agra..
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