After a meeting with the president, We Continue the Change party stated the caretaker cabinet must submit a draft budget for 2023 to the National Assembly.
The deadline for submitting a budget for next year is today, 31 October. At an extraordinary meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation, Finance Minister in the caretaker government Rositza Velkova stated that the budget is the country’s financial plan and the government programme of the majority which has not yet been formed. In her words, there has never been a caretaker government under which a state budget has been adopted. At the Council meeting, the cabinet proposed, to the social partners and the employers, a bill on extending the implementation of the old, 2022 budget until a new, regular government is formed.
International rating agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bulgaria's long-term foreign and local currency credit rating at BBB with a positive outlook, the Finance Ministry said. The positive outlook reflects the country's prospects for eurozone..
In 2023, Bulgaria's GDP growth was 1.9% higher in real terms compared to 2022. This is 0.1 percent more than the initially announced growth of 1.8%, the National Statistical Institute has reported. The chairman of the institute,..
In Brussels, Bulgaria and North Macedonia reaffirmed their commitment to continue the construction of Railway Corridor No. 8 under the TEN-T Regulation, reported the European Commission’s Directorate General for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement..
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