Socialism

Trade unions announced they would ask for the minimum wage at RSD 209 per working hour and for minimum monthly wage to be increased by RSD 11,000. On the other hand, employers offer a 6-7% raise.

The Labor Ministry is launching a series of inspections to stamp out undeclared labor, following the publication by the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) of the decision specifying details of the law this week.

Greece should have been allowed to go bankrupt and move on from the crisis, former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has told a German tabloid.

This Monday the EU agriculture ministers formally exchanged views for the first time on the Commission's proposal for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2020 in a meeting chaired by Bulgarian Minister for Agriculture Rumen Porodzanov.

Ensuring generational renewal in farming was the focus of the informal meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers held in Sofia on 4-5 June 2018. In the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020, the ministers discussed challenges related to the aging of the agricultural labour population and to rural depopulation.

Russian PT broadcasts a video of the rarely shown residence of North Korean's leader Kim Jong-un.

Ilya Petrenko, a journalist, reported that he had been granted an exclusive access to the residence during a visit to Pyongyang by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The journalist was able to photograph the building.

A crisis center for protection against domestic violence will be set up in every regional city, the parliament decided at first reading, BNR reported.

The proposal is by MPs from the BSP and was backed by the government. 118 MPs were in favor, only two abstained.

The Socialists propose to allocate 2 million levs for the establishment of these centers.

The installation of the Bronze House on the site of Georgi Dimitrov's mausoleum in Sofia started on Wednesday. It is supposed to be a symbol of the Bulgarian Presidency, ending in late June, and the subsequent Austrian presidency by the end of the year.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that countries need to rise to the challenge of climate change, quoted by Reuters. 

Guterres, speaking at the Chinese Boao Forum for Asia on Hainan island, said that while globalization had helped reduce poverty, vast numbers of people had been left behind and he wanted a fairer outcome.

Preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute, NSI for the fourth quarter of 2017 indicate that the total hourly labour cost rose by 12.2% compared to the fourth quarter of 2016.