In 2017 the Bulgarians spent nearly 1.7% of their money on alcohol (just under EUR 600 million), data of Eurostat on consumption of alcohol in the EU shows. The EU citizens spent 1.6% of their money on alcohol on average. Nearly 15% of the Bulgarian citizens (nearly 1 million people) consume alcohol almost every day or several times a week, data of the National Statistical Institute show. Nearly 30% (roughly 2.1 million people) drink alcohol once a week, and one in three Bulgarians did not consume any alcohol in that period.
Sofia has taken over the presidency of the most prestigious local government forum in the Balkans – B40. The capital’s mayor Vasil Terziev accepted the baton from the municipality of Tirana, which marked the beginning of the fourth edition of B40...
Ukraine must be given reliable and stable security guarantees as an indispensable condition for sustainable peace , says an official position of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry on the occasion of 3 years of "Russia's unprovoked and unjustified..
Bulgarian-Ukrainian associations and non-governmental organizations are organizing marches in the evening in Sofia, Plovdiv and Veliko Tarnovo o n the occasion of the third anniversary since the start of the war in Ukraine on February 24...
On Wednesday, minimum temperatures will range between minus 5° C. and zero, lower in the Northeastern parts of the country where they will drop down..
Bulgaria is to take part in common procurement procedures in the sphere of defence at an EU level, under projects for the acquisition of IRIS-T air..
“There is no change, Bulgarian troops are not going to be sent to Ukraine,” said PM Rosen Zhelyazkov in a comment about the meeting between US..
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