According to Jaewoo Lee, Head of the IMF mission for Bulgaria, inequality in this country keeps growing.
As a measure to provide more resources for social spending, the Fund proposes increasing the maximum social security income without eliminating the flat tax of 10%. IMF experts, who have been in Bulgaria since February 4, have held a series of meetings with government officials, BNB experts, business and non-governmental organizations. The fund assessed the stability of the financial system and the state of the economy in 2019, announcing that stable, albeit more moderate economic growth is expected in 2020, as well.
Meanwhile, the National Statistical Institute announced that annual inflation in January was 4.2%, with a rise in prices marked in almost all goods and services.
Evelin Banev-Brendo, declared an international wanted man, surrendered to the police this morning, the Ministry of the Interior informed. He disappeared after receiving a six-year effective sentence for money laundering. In..
Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture and Food, Georgi Tahov, participates today in a meeting of the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council, which is held in Luxembourg. The Belgian presidency will invite the Council to endorse a set of..
According to the requirements of the Constitution, on June 24, President Rumen Radev starts consultations with representatives of the parliamentary groups in the 50th National Assembly before handing over the first exploratory mandate..
On Tuesday it will be mostly sunny before noon, with light to moderate east-northeasterly winds in the afternoon. Maximum temperatures will be between..
"We are gradually starting to equip the trains with electronic devices for selling tickets," BDZ Passenger Transport manager Ventsislav Slavkov said,..
2023 was another year in which high-level corruption in Bulgaria remained under the radar, as the criminal proceedings conducted did not reflect the true..
sunshine, cloud, rain and thunder
Partly Cloudy
Mostly Cloudy