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By End of June Employees under Labour Contract Decrease by 4.5% Year on Year, Wages Go Up by 6.1% on Average
August 12 (BTA) - According to the preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) at the end of June 2020 the number of employees under labour contract decreased by 23.5 thousand or 1.0 per cent as compared to the end of March 2020 and reached 2.24 million. The h...
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Number of Chemotherapy Patients Is Declining, Cancer Medication Prices Increase, Shows Hospital Index Project Data
August 11 (BTA) - A data analysis from the Hospital Index Project in the field of oncology, published on Tuesday, shows a decrease in the number of patients who received chemotherapy in Bulgaria last year and a clear increase in the cost of medicines for its implementation. The d...
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June Industrial Production Index Up 5.8 Per Cent M/M, Down 7.7 Per Cent Y/Y
August 10 (BTA) - Compared to May 2020, the June Industrial Production Index, seasonally adjusted, increased by 5.8 per cent, according to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute released on Monday. In June 2020 the working day adjusted Industrial Producti...
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Accessible Environment for Disabled People Remains Big Problem, Informal Organization Warns
Sofia, August 10 (BTA) - Accessible environment for people with disabilities remains a big problem, Ivan Yanev of an informal organization called Alliance Accessibility told a BTA-hosted news conference on Monday. Yanev said that a new ordinance in support of disabled people...
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By End-June, Households Kept Lv 57.2 Bln on Bank Deposits
Sofia, August 7 (BTA) - The deposits of the Non-financial corporations sector and the Households and Non-profit institutions, serving households (NPISHs) sector numbered 9,905,000 at the end of June 2020, declining by 2.8 per cent, year on year, the Bulgarian National Bank rep...
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By End-June, Households Kept Lv 57.2 Bln on Bank Deposits
August 7 (BTA) - The deposits of the Non-financial corporations sector and the Households and Non-profit institutions, serving households (NPISHs) sector numbered 9,905,000 at the end of June 2020, declining by 2.8 per cent, year on year, the Bulgarian National Bank reported on F...
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Regulator Concerned about Assaults on Journalists
August 6 (BTA) - The Council for Electronic Media (CEM) is seriously concerned about what it sees as increasingly frequent assaults on journalists. "Any assault on a journalist and anything that is done to keep a journalist from doing their job is a direct encroachment on the fre...
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Over 60% of Bulgarians Support Protests - Alpha Research Poll
August 4 (BTA) - A little over 60 per cent of Bulgarians support the protests from recent weeks, shows a nationally representative survey commissioned by the Dnevnik e-zine and conducted by Alpha Research among 1,017 respondents in person between July 23 and July 30, 2020. The...
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AmCham Bulgaria: Rule of Law Essential for Attracting Foreign Investment
July 30 (BTA) - To become a preferred nearshoring destination, Bulgaria needs to embrace the rule of law and fight corruption, the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria (AmCham Bulgaria), Olivier Marquette, said on Thursday during an online conference on "Bulg...
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Economy Ministry to Implement Measures in Support of Business Worth Lv 1.8 Bln
Sofia, July 28 (BTA) - Meeting with employers here on Tuesday, Economy Minister Lachezar Borisov presented the Government's new socio-economic measures against the consequences of COVID-19. He explained that these measures are divided into two groups: the first will be...
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Household of Four Needs Lv 2,504 a Month - Trade Union
July 28 (BTA) - A four-member household (two adults and two children) needs 2,504 leva a month for a normal life, according to a June study conducted by the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB), whose results were presented here on Tuesday by CITUB P...
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EU-Wide Study Finds High Risks for Media Pluralism and Freedom in Bulgaria
July 27 (BTA) - A study by the European Commission (EC) among all EU member states, Albania, Great Britain and Turkey, show a general stagnation or deterioration of media pluralism and media freedom. The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM 2020) was conducted by the Centre for Media Plu...
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Tourist Accommodation Packages and One-Night Charges Continue to Depreciate
July 26 (BTA) - Some 55.9 per cent of managers of tourist accommodation establishments polled by the National Statistical Institute in June 2020 remained inclined to propose to their clients alternative periods for bookings they have made. For yet another month, most managers int...
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European Commission Presents EU Media Situation Report Including Data about Bulgaria
July 23 (BTA corr. Nikolay Zhelyazkov) - The European Commission presented on Thursday several reports by independent academics on the condition of media in the EU and its future member states. The documents also cover the mass media situation in Bulgaria in 2018-2019. The rep...
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Regulator Discusses Bulgargaz's Natural Gas Price Increase Proposal
July 22 (BTA) - The Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) discussed here on Wednesday during an open online session Bulgargaz's proposed natural gas price increase by 2.20 per cent for August. Bulgargaz EAD has proposed in a report, submitted to EWRC, that the natural ...
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Prosecution Opens Power Plant Probe after Opposition Leader Exposes Spinning Reserve "Theft"
Sofia, July 21 (BTA) - The Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office announced Tuesday that it is opening a probe into the award of a contract for power supply security to Varna Thermo-electric Power Plant (TPP). The announcement came several hours after the co-leader of the o...
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Nine Banks Apply to Provide Anti-crisis Loans, Guaranteed by Fund of Funds
July 21 (BTA) - Nine banks have expressed willingness to provide anti-crisis loans to small and medium-sized enterprises, guaranteed by the Fund of Funds (FOF), in response to the economic crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FOF said. By the deadline of July 17, 2020,...
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Beer Sales in Restaurants and Bars Plummet by 60% in First Half of 2020
Sofia, July 20 (BTA) - The pandemic year 2020 has posed a number of challenges to businesses and individuals, and it is no surprise that beer sales in Bulgaria's restaurants, bars and discos declined by 60 per cent in the first half of the year compared with the first half...
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EU Council Approves Recommendations for Bulgarian Economy
20 July (BTA Corr. Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The EU Council said on Monday that it has approved its recommendations for EU countries in the field of economy for this and next year. Four recommendations were addressed to Bulgaria. The first is to take all necessary measures, subject...
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NSI: In 2019 Trials for 30,276 Crimes Concluded 10,577 Effective Sentences
July 16 (BTA) - According to a publication by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) on Thursday, in 2019 the trials of 30,276 committed crimes were concluded. Proceedings of 10,577 crimes were ended with effective sentences, of 14,385 crimes - with conditional sentences, ...
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