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Berlin – Camping Plana & Bar 66 near Pivka has been rated the most popular Slovenian campsite and the 82nd most popular in Europe by the users of the Berlin-based portal camping.info.

Ljubljana – The SPIRIT agency issued on Thursday a second call for micro, small and medium-sized tourism and hospitality companies for the co-funding of operating costs in the first wave of the epidemic in spring 2020. EUR 36.2 million is available and over 6,000 companies are expected to apply, with the aid to be paid out at the end of June.

Ljubljana – The Hungarian minority in Slovenia will get incentives from the state worth EUR 2.8 million in 2021-2024 in a bid to improve the economic development of the area where the community lives.

The funding will be available under three agreements that Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek has signed with the representatives of the Hungarian minority, the ministry said.

Ljubljana – Bird Buddy, a project of a smart bird feeder created by a predominately Slovenian team, has raised a total of EUR 4.19 million on Kickstarter, the global crowdfunding platform, thus becoming the most successful Slovenian project by far.

Ljubljana – The National Assembly will convene an emergency session next Tuesday, on 29 December, to confirm the government’s latest economic stimulus package, the college of deputy group leaders decided on Monday.

The- will increase the annual amount of film funding by 6.32 percent from 6,411,600 EUR in 2018 to 6,817,055 EUR in 2019, reported filmneweurope.com

The support for minority co-productions will nearly double from 613,550 EUR in 2018 to 919,814 EUR in 2019.

The royal flush of investors with the highest impact on Slovenia's economic growth for 2018 includes RLS, Fraport Slovenija, Bosch Rexroth and cargo-partner.

EMS SA Brazil affiliated Luxembourg-based Aelius has offered EUR 16 million to purchase 93.7 percent of Galenika's capital, the Ministry of Economy announced.

The Central Bank of Bulgaria reports deficit of the country's current balance, amounting to some EUR 254M for March, on surplus of EUR 131M in March 2016, according to BNR.

The trade balance in March was negative to the tune of EUR 343M on deficit to the tune of EUR 221.1M a year earlier.

Bulgaria's debt increased by EUR 2.1238 B to EUR 13.7619 B in 2016, reported the Finance Ministry.

Compared to November 2016, state debt increased by EUR 557.8 M. Internal debt in December 2016 amounted to EUR 3,4895 B; external debt was EUR 10.2724 B.

In 2016, internal debt shrank by EUR 189.9 M, while external debt increased by EUR 2.3137 B.