12% of the Bulgarian companies complained with delayed payments by contractors or the state in 2017, Eurostat statistics shows. Thus, Bulgaria ranked in the middle of the Eurostat ranking under this indicator. 20% of the companies in Italy had problems with delayed payments. Only 4% of the Romanian companies had such problems in 2017, Eurostat further announces. 25% of the people who started a business in Bulgaria do not experience difficulties. The Bulgarian entrepreneurs mainly complain with lack of enough business and clients (21%) and administrative burden (9%).
An average of seven unemployed people are competing for one job across the country in 2024, according to the National Employment Agency. The unemployment rate in Bulgaria remained at 5.2% in October The strongest competition is in the..
Sofia will welcome the Christmas and New Year holidays with brilliant decorations in all areas of the city. A major highlight in the transformation of the capital will be the beautiful Christmas trees placed in key locations. The tallest among..
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus 7 and minus 2°C, reaching minus 10°C in the valleys and around minus 9°C in Sofia. Tomorrow will be..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
The Sofia Christmas Festival will open tonight in the park in front of the National Palace of Culture in the heart of Sofia . The third edition of the..
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