The first payments under the recovery and resilience plan are expected in the autumn, caretaker Minister for EU Funds Atanas Pekanov said in an interview with Nova TV. The sum will amount to EUR 1.3 billion and Bulgaria will request it by the end of August, and within two months the European Commission will answer whether it will allocate the money. Minister Pekanov stated that for there to be subsequent payments, the new parliament will have to approve 22 laws by the end of 2022.
In the next five years close to EUR 1.5 billion will be invested in the development of Bulgarian businesses under the new programme Competitiveness and Innovation in Enterprises. The monmey will go to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises introduce new technologies and innovations, the Ministry of Innovation and Growth says.
We are moving towards the option of not having a quickly adopted budget for 2025, Lachezar Bogdanov, chief economist from the Institute for Market Economics, told BNR. In presenting the institute's alternative state budget, the..
Bulgaria and India will intensify their cooperation in various sectors of mutual interest. This was discussed at a meeting of the Bulgarian Minister of Economy Petko Nikolov with Ambassador of India to Bulgaria H.E. Sanjay Rana. The two focused..
On October 31, 2024, 10 business leaders in Bulgaria founded the first Bulgarian-Czech Chamber of Commerce in the country. At the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Sofia, in the presence of Martin Dvořák, Minister of European Affairs of the Czech..
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