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Bulgaria's Pension Insurance Contributions Set to Rise in 2017, 2018

A medium-term budget forecast now before Bulgarian cabinet calls for freezing the minimum wage for two years after the end of next year as well as increasing the mandatory pension insurance contributions in 2017 and 2018.

The 2017-2019 budget forecast drafted by the Finance Ministry is on the agenda of the weekly meeting of the government on Wednesday.

Bulgaria Moves to Speed up Issuing of Work Permits to Non-EU Citizens

Bulgaria's Employment Agency has called a public tender for the building of a software system that will make it easier and faster to issue work permits to non-EU citizens.

The rationale is to remove barriers to hiring much needed professionals, particularly in the IT sector.

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