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Nearly 56 per cent of Bulgarians never shop online, according to a nationally representative poll conducted by the Trend agency between July 16 and 22 among 1,007 Bulgarians aged 18 or over. Its findings were presented at BTA's National Press Club on Monday at a joint news conference with Bosch Home Appliance Group Bulgaria

IT experts, marketing managers, people employed at outsourcing companies, business consultants and financial advisors are among the most demanded specialists at present, indicate data of a poll conducted by Radio Bulgaria during the 2021 edition of Tuk-Tam Career Hive forum held in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

The Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis, analyzed the new measures announced yesterday at the Thessaloniki International Fair by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for MEGA television.

As he stressed, the government has given priority to young people, the vulnerable and households.

The 31st Akbank Jazz Festival, organized with the theme of "The Jazz State of the City Again," will be organized from Oct. 1 to 10 this year.

The festival program, which will host special performances by more than 100 artists from the Turkish jazz scene in different venues, was announced on Sept. 8.

A percentage of 36.7% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are facing the fear of filing for bankruptcy, according to a survey by the Center for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Greece.

In particular, according to this survey, the percentage of enterprises that express the fear of a possible cessation of their activity in the next period remains very high (36.7%).

The pandemic may have boosted the country's e-commerce industry, but it has also sparked fraud.

The data of the Consumer Ombudsman are revealing, according to which there was:

Ljubljana – The National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) has decided to outsource some of the contact tracing to a private company, City Connect. The six-month deal is worth almost EUR 2.3 million, or EUR 1.86 million without VAT, the business newspaper Finance reported on Monday.

However, this also led to problems in home delivery, so the number of complaints due to delays, non-delivery or damage to goods increased. Although the difficulties in this area have been the same for years, customers are not yet well aware of their rights.

The technical data sheets have been approved and the first 12 projects of the "Greece 2.0" Plan with a total budget of 1.42 billion euros are starting. The approval was given by the Deputy Minister of Finance, Theodoros Skylakakis, who is responsible for the Recovery Fund, following a relevant suggestion of the Special Coordination Service of the Fund.

The Finance Ministry and tech unicorn UiPath announced the signing of their first cooperation agreement, a step forward for rendering operational the Ministry's Robotic Process Automation Center of Excellence.