At the end of 2019 over 1.2 million people were employed in Bulgaria’s leading economic centers Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, analysis of the Institute for Market Economics shows. Over 700,000 people are employed in Bulgaria’s capital. A total of 324,000 people work in the second-largest city Plovdiv and 229,000 are employed in Bulgaria’s coastal city and third-biggest city Varna. Over 80% of the active population in the city of Veliko Tarnovo was employed in 2019 which is a rare phenomenon not only in Bulgaria, but also globally. Sofia is the Bulgarian city with highest number of employed people with university degree. The demographic factor is the biggest threat to regional employment. In Montana for instance, the number of employed people in active age decreased with 15% in one decade only and at this point there are no signs of recovery.
The majority of Austrian companies that have invested in Bulgaria expect the economic climate in the country to remain stable (54%) or improve (13%) over the next 12 months. This was shown by the traditional "Survey among Austrian..
Eight inflatable boats used to transport migrants illegally from the EU to the UK across the English Channel have been confiscated at the Lesovo border checkpoint on the border with Turkey. They were declared to customs authorities as..
There are 1,300 vacancies in the National Railway Infrastructure Company, or about 10% of the jobs - mainly for mechanics, traffic controllers, and switchmen. This was what the chair of the Union of Railway Workers in Bulgaria, Petar..
In a statement from the parliamentary rostrum, the leader of Vazrazhdane party, Kostadin Kostadinov, stated that his party would not allow "a national..
President Rumen Radev held a phone conversation with the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan Regional..
Bulgaria’s Minister of Finance Temenuzhka Petkova said that she is concerned about the current state of the country’s finances, which,..
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