Popular Bulgarian brands of yoghurt, yellow cheese, lyutenitsa, cheese etc. will receive European protection within 2 – 3 months. Legislative changes will be voted then for trademarks and geographical indications, so the national protection of the products will drop. Those amendments were actually due 9 years ago, in order for those foods to enter a European register, keeping their original Bulgarian names. As the authorities in charge didn’t inform the Bulgarian producers for the criteria of the European register, now the state had urgent negotiations with Brussels for keeping the rights for producing Bulgarian foods. Entities from other EU member-states will have to mark their production with a label, pointing at the Bulgarian origin.
The draft budget for 2025 proposes a deficit of 3%. The mid-term budgetary forecast targets a deficit of 3% up until 2028. The government debt is to increase to EUR 41.57 billion by 2028. The size of pension insurance is to be preserved in..
In 2025, the National Health Insurance Fund will be able to spend 1.2 billion leva (EUR 613 million) more on insured individuals, the draft budget of its Supervisory Board envisages. The health insurance contribution remains 8% of the insurable..
Bulgaria will meet the final criterion of price stability for entry into the eurozone by January. After that, politicians are in charge, Bulgarian National Bank Governor Dimitar Radev has told BNT. "Politicians must try to get the..
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