According to Eurostat, Bulgaria is first in the EU in terms of industrial production growth with 20.2%. "This became possible because thefts were stopped and an end was put to racketeering and to the extortion of companies," Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Kornelia Ninova said. She reported historical export growth of 38.8%.
According to experts, the growth was mainly due to the record-high export of defense products to Ukraine, BGNES reports. The National Statistical Institute commented that this was an expected result of inflation. In May 2022, total Bulgarian exports grew on an annual basis by 60.7% to 4.2 billion euros, while total imports grew by 49.3% to 4.6 billion euros.
On October 31, 2024, 10 business leaders in Bulgaria founded the first Bulgarian-Czech Chamber of Commerce in the country. At the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Sofia, in the presence of Martin Dvořák, Minister of European Affairs of the Czech..
In the space of 15 years, from 2005 until 2020, 75% of the farms in the country have disappeared – from 500,000 in 2005 down to 132,000 in 2020, said Prof. Dr. Bozhidar Ivanov, Director of the Institute of Agrarian Economics at an international..
In October 2024, the total business climate indicator decreased by 5.6 percentage points compared to September, dropping from 22.5% to 16.9%. The index declined in all monitored sectors, the National Statistical Institute announced. In industry, the..
Butter and vegetable oil are the products that have increased in price the most over the year. The retail price of vegetable oil will range between 3..
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