Bulgaria Goes for Euro Bond Sale to Repay Debt
Bulgaria is already preparing the sale of bonds on international markets to finance BGN 1.8 B of global bonds that mature in early 2013, the finance minister announced.
Bulgaria is already preparing the sale of bonds on international markets to finance BGN 1.8 B of global bonds that mature in early 2013, the finance minister announced.
Bulgaria will seek to hire only major investment banks or consultancies to help arrange the privatization of the country's only stock exchange and depository, according to insiders.
Delyan Dobrev, the nominee for Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, has vowed to channel investments of BGN 850 M – 1 B in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by end-2012.
Bulgaria's Corporate Commercial Bank, which holds nearly half of the deposits by state-run companies, is planning to float on a foreign stock exchange.
Greece should follow the example set by neighbors Bulgaria and Albania and introduce a flat tax, according to Steve Forbes, 64-year-old publisher of the Forbes magazine-and-web empire.
Bulgaria targets major global and European bourse operators for the sale of its only stock exchange, which it hopes to wrap up in the first half of this year, according to insiders, cited by local media.
The Head of the Bulgaria Financial Supervision Commission, Stoyan Mavrodiev, became Tuesday the latest expert to attack Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, on his plans for the Silver Fund.
Bulgaria's European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva has backed the government's plans to lower the 20% value-added-tax by the end of its term, but with a pinch of salt.
Bulgaria's February inflation rate reached 2% as compared with the same month of 2011, the country's National Statistical Institute has informed.
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, stated Saturday that Value Added Tax, VAT, could be lowered this year, depending on budget 2012.
Bulgaria's cabinet must seek professional advice for the management of the Silver Fund which is part of the fiscal reserve, according to the country's EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgiev
Bulgaria's cabinet plans to diversify sources for collecting the needed BGN 2 M to pay foreign debt due at the beginning of 2013.
The Value Added Tax, VAT, in Bulgaria might be lowered by end of the term of the current government of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB.
The top forty of the wealthiest Bulgarians have earned a total of BGN 140 M in 2011.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is boosting its support for energy efficiency projects in Bulgaria with a new EUR 10 M loan to the Bulgarian Energetics and Energy Savings Fund (FEEI), the bank said in a statement.
Bulgaria's government has voiced, yet again, its willingness to lower the 20% value-added-tax by the end of its term, which expires next year.
By the start of 2013 Bulgaria will have spent its entire fiscal reserve due to the policies of center-right GERB cabinet, argued former Bulgarian Minister of Finance Plamen Oresharski.
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the sovereign credit rating of Greece to the lowest level, from 'Ca' to 'C', the rating agency said.
The latest deal to cut Greece's debt has not yet constituted a default, ISDA, an official trading body has ruled.
Banks in Bulgaria continue to record steady growth in deposits, a trend which has been gaining momentum throughout last year, official data shows.
Private Equity International (PEI Media) Magazine has rated VTB Capital as the best Investment Company on the Russian private equity market in 2011 on the day of the company's entering of the Bulgarian market.
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