Bulgaria’s Ministry of Labor and Social Policy launched a new programme aimed at boosting employment in municipalities with high unemployment levels. The pilot project of the programme will start in 14 municipalities in Vidin, Vratsa and Montana districts. EUR 1 million will be granted to municipalities with highest unemployment- Ruzhintsi, Yakimovo, Hayredin, Dimovo, Borovan, Valchedram, Chuprene, Krivodol, Gramada, etc, where unemployment is between 30% and 64%. 830 jobless Bulgarians aged 29 or under and people with low education and without any qualification will be employed full or part time. They will be employed for a period of twelve months at the private sector and the municipalities. The programme is directed to the discouraged people who were not registered at the employment offices. Part of the financial resource will be used for qualification courses.
On Thursday, the minimum temperatures in Bulgaria will be between minus 14 °C and minus 8°C. In Sofia, it will be around minus 12°C. The day will be sunny but frosty. The thermometer values in most places will be negative. Before noon, there will be..
With various events throughout the country Bulgarians are marking 152 years after the death of the Apostle of Bulgarian Freedom Vasil Levski. Today, at 6:00 p.m. a memorial ceremony in front of the monument to the Apostle of Freedom in Sofia takes..
BNB Governor Dimitar Radev will sign the request for an extraordinary convergence report on the fulfillment of the criteria for eurozone membership. This is clear from his response in an interview with BTA, in which Radev announced that the Central..
The Vazrazhdane parliamentary party is organizing a protest on February 22 in front of the Bulgarian National Bank against Bulgaria's entry into the..
A serious train crash involving a train owned by the Bulgarian company PIMK has occurred near Craiova, Romania. According to initial information, the..
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends that Bulgarian citizens traveling or residing in Canada keep themelselves well-informed about the current..
Partly Cloudy
Clear
Mostly Cloudy