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Gross External Debt Reaches EUR 36 Bln at End-August
October 28 (BTA) - Bulgaria's gross external debt amounted to 36,020.8 million euro (63.5 per cent of GDP) at end-August 2020, growing by 842.6 million euro (2.4 per cent) from end-2019 (35,178.2 million euro, 57.4 per cent of GDP). On a year-on-year basis, gross external deb...
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Ponto-Sarmatic Steppesat Cape Kaliakra To Be Restored
October 27 (BTA) - The Kavarna Municipality in northeastern Bulgaria started work on the restoration of the Ponto-Sarmatic steppes, the Bulgarian National Radio announced on Tuesday. The project is funded by the Enterprise for Management of Environment Protection Activities, foll...
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Nearly 50% of Non-Financial Enterprises Report No Monthly Change in September Sales
Sofia, October 26 (BTA) - One in three (32.2 per cent) non-financial enterprises which took part in a business survey conducted by the National Statistical Institute said their September sales of goods and services decreased from August, while 17.8 per cent saw an increase. A ...
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Nearly 50% of Non-Financial Enterprises Report No Monthly Change in September Sales
October 26 (BTA) - One in three (32.2 per cent) non-financial enterprises which took part in a business survey conducted by the National Statistical Institute said their September sales of goods and services decreased from August, while 17.8 per cent saw an increase. A total of 4...
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Climate Change Highlights Urgent Need to Rescue Forests - Expert
October 23 (Desislava Velkova of BTA) - Climate change destroys about 1 per cent of artificial coniferous forests every year, BTA learned from Engr. Alexander Dounchev, an expert at the Southwestern State Forestry Unit. With an area of nearly 200,000 hectares, those forests accou...
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The debt of Bulgaria for 2019 is 20.2 percent of GDP
Оctober 22 (BTA) - Bulgaria's debt for 2019 amounted to 24,212 million leva, or 20.2 per cent of GDP, according to final data from the National Statistical Institute on Thursday. In 2019, the General Government institutional sector reported a budget surplus of 2,304 million le...
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Bulgarian Industry's Plans for Investment in Automation Adversely Affected by Pandemic, Study Shows
October 20 (BTA) - Half of the Bulgarian industrial companies that participated in a study by the Professional Association of Robotics and Automation (PARA) said that the pandemic has negatively affected their plans for investment in automation. About 41 per cent answered that th...
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Poll: Summer Tourist Season Assessed in Rather Positive Terms Despite Higher Expectations
Sofia, October 19 (BTA) - The outgoing summer season is assessed in rather positive terms despite the higher expectations, and competition abroad has made Bulgarian tourists more fastidious, Gallup International found in a poll taken jointly with the National Board of Tourism ...
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Bulgaria's Old-Growth Forests Win Citizens' Award at Natura 2000 Awards
October 15 (BTA) - Bulgaria's old-growth forests won the European Citizens' Award, which is one of the six Natura 2000 Awards for 2020, said the Executive Forest Agency (EFA). This country's old growth forests were noted for the remarkable achievement in management and conservati...
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EC Assesses Bulgaria's Ten-Year Energy and Climate Plan, Makes Recommendations
October 14 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission (EC) presented here on Wednesday its 2020 report on the state of the Energy Union that features assessments of the Member States' energy and climate plans (NECPs) for achieving the EU's climate and energy ...
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Consumer Prices Deflate by 0.6 Per Cent in September, Month on Month - Official Statistics
October 14 (BTA) - Measured by the consumer price index (CPI), Bulgaria's monthly inflation in September 2020 was minus 0.6 per cent compared to August 2020, the National Statistical Institute reported on Tuesday. The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (September ...
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Bulgaria Posts Lv 54.4. Mln Surplus in Trade with EU for January - July 2020
Sofia, October 12 (BTA) - Bulgaria posted a 54.4 million leva surplus in its trade with the rest of the EU in January - July 2020, according to estimates released by the National Statistical Institute on Monday. Bulgarian exports to the EU in the seven-month period contracte...
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Bulgaria Posts Lv 54.4. Mln Surplus in Trade with EU for January - July 2020
October 12 (BTA) - Bulgaria posted a 54.4 million leva surplus in its trade with the rest of the EU in January - July 2020, according to estimates released by the National Statistical Institute on Monday. Bulgarian exports to the EU in the seven-month period contracted by 6.5 ...
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Industrial Production Declines 5.7% in August Y/Y
Sofia, October 9 (BTA) - Industrial production in Bulgaria in August declined 5.7 per cent from this time last year, the National Statistical Institute said. It showed an increase of 0.7 per cent from July 2020. The seasonally adjusted Industrial Production Index in August 2...
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Share of Cyber Fraud in Bulgaria Up Two-fold in 2020
October 8 (BTA) - According to data of the National Centre for Incident Response in Information Security with the State eGovernment Agency, in 2020 the share of cyber fraud in Bulgaria was 48 per cent, while back in 2016 it stood at 24 per cent of all cyber incidents in this coun...
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Clinical Pathways Provided in 2019 Increase by 2.2%
October 7 BTA) - The number of clinical pathways provided in Bulgaria in 2019 increased by 2.2 per cent compared with 2018, reaching 2,141,300, according to data from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). On Wednesday, Parliament adopted the annual reports of the NHIF for 20...
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EIF, UBB and European Commission Extend Cooperation to Support MSMEs
Sofia, October 2 (BTA) - The European Investment Fund (EIF), United Bulgarian Bank (UBB) and the European Commission are extending cooperation to unlock a total of 768 million euro for Bulgarian micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), UBB said. This amount includes...
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Bulgaria's Electricity Production Down 8.12 Per Cent in January-September 2020, Year on Year
Sofia, October 2 (BTA) - Between January 1 and September 27, 2020, Bulgaria produced 29,940,363 MWh of electricity, down by 8.12 per cent from the 32,585,162 MWh generated in the like period of 2019, the Electricity System Operator (ESO) reported on its website. Year on year,...
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Bulgaria's Electricity Production Down 8.12 Per Cent in January-September 2020, Year on Year
October 2 (BTA) - Between January 1 and September 27, 2020, Bulgaria produced 29,940,363 MWh of electricity, down by 8.12 per cent from the 32,585,162 MWh generated in the like period of 2019, the Electricity System Operator (ESO) reported on its website. Year on year, domesti...
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Government Approves Report on Implementation of 2019 State Budget
September 30 (BTA) - The government approved here on Wednesday the annual report on the implementation of the state budget in 2019, the government's information service said. According to the report, the end-of-year deficit of the Consolidated Fiscal Programme (CFP) on a cash ...
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