100 million euros worth of internal debt in government bonds is being offered to investors. This is the first debt issuance since the spring of 2021, and in the term of office of caretaker Minister of Finance Assen Vassilev. The bonds are with a zero interest rate, but they are being purchased by investors - mostly by banks and funds because they are a reliable instrument which is better than the negative interest rates of financial institutions.
In 2021 Bulgaria issued 400 million euro’s worth of debt on the domestic market. The debt maximum in the state budget for the year is 2.3 billion euro, but experts say that it is hardly likely that this threshold will be reached by the end of the year.
The Romanian company OMV Petrom, which is part of the Austrian OMV, has taken over as operator of the Han Asparuh perimeter in Bulgaria. OMV Petrom replaced Total Energies as the operator of the Han Asparuh deep water perimeter in Bulgaria, according to..
Bulgaria's GDP per capita, expressed in purchasing power standards (PPS), remains the lowest in the EU, according to preliminary data from Eurostat, the official European statistics agency. In 2023, the purchasing power of European citizens ranges..
The National Assembly voted, at second reading, to give the go-ahead to cooperation with the US for the construction of reactors 7 and 8 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. Parliament greenlights nuclear project with US technology..
The poverty threshold in Bulgaria was BGN 637.92 (EUR 323) per person per month in 2023. This is an increase of 21.3 per cent compared with the previous..
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