According to a Eurostat analysis on the share of environmental taxes in total government revenues from taxes and social contributions for 2016, Bulgaria is among the five EU countries which pay the highest environmental taxes.
In Bulgaria, environmental taxes account for 9.6 percent of the total government revenues from taxes and social contributions, the average for the EU being 6.3 percent. Energy taxes (including transport fuels) account for the highest share of the environmental taxes collected – around 75 percent.
Bulgaria is to take part in common procurement procedures in the sphere of defence at an EU level, under projects for the acquisition of IRIS-T air defence systems and CAESAR self-propelled howitzers. The Ministry of Defence applied for and..
Bulgaria has submitted a request for an extraordinary convergence report based on the understanding that the country meets the criteria for entering the Eurozone, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said at the opening of a new production facility in..
Artificial intelligence is now built entirely from classical computers with algorithms, while artificial intelligence based on quantum computers will be much faster and more functional , says doctoral student Ivo Mihov from the Center for Quantum..
According to data from Eurostat, Bulgaria has met the final criterion for joining the eurozone, namely price stability, Minister of Finance Temenuzhka..
The Ministers of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have called on the European Commission to restore pre-war import quotas for..
Sofia has taken over the presidency of the most prestigious local government forum in the Balkans – B40. The capital’s mayor Vasil Terziev accepted the..
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