The EUR 100 million loan agreed with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development can be taken if the country receives co-financing from the EU funds as well, GERB MP and Chairperson of the National Assembly Budget and Finance Committee Menda Stoyanova announced on Sunday in response to the statement of the Bulgarian Socialist Party that the cabinet has taken a loan worth EUR 100 million and was about to take new loans to the tune of EUR 3 billion. Stoyanova also points out that according to the three-year budget plan, the country's budget deficit has to be reduced by 2020. That is why Bulgaria does not have to borrow new loans, Menda Stoyanova went on to say.
With the votes of GERB, We Continue the Change (PP-DB) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Parliament decided to extend by 180 days the negotiations between the Bulgarian Energy Minister and his Ukrainian counterpart on the sale to Ukraine of..
75.3% of Bulgarians identify themselves as Orthodox, 9.9% as Muslim and 11% as not religious. 59.5% say they believe in God and 27.5% do not. The rest are undecided. A fifth of respondents say they frequently attend religious services. These are..
GERB leader Boyko Borissov announced that he is extending a hand to the parties from the former assemblage to seek an option of governance after the elections, the BNR’s reporter Daniel Inkov informed. Boyko Borissov emphasized that pragmatism in..
For the fourth year, one of the most beautiful places to fly in the world - the Belogradchik rocks, will host the Balloon Fiesta. Pilots from..
Acting chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Atanas Zafirov has withdrawn the papers submitted yesterday for the BSP’s independent..
Cases of pertussis (whooping cough) are now few, while the number of scarlet fever and chickenpox cases has been reduced to a..
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