Jerzy Buzek, the President of the Parliament of EU, praised the budget deficit of Bulgaria as the lowest in the EU countries on 5 of March 2010.
... The gross foreign debt of Bulgaria shrank 0.8 per cent on a monthly basis to EUR 37 billion at the end of February 2010 and accounted for 107.3 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), the central bank said on 26 of April 2010. On an annual basis, the country’s gross domestic product fell by EUR 14.5 million, the data showed. The gross private debt edged down 0.9 per cent to EUR 32.8 billion on a monthly basis, while banks' foreign debt dropped by EUR 186.4 million on a monthly basis in February and fell EUR 1.1 billion from a year ago. The public and publicly guaranteed external debt went up slightly in comparison with the previous month to EUR 4.2 billion, or 12.3 per cent of GDP, according to the data. Bulgaria forked out EUR 1.112 billion to pay its gross foreign debt in February (3.2 per cent of GDP) in comparison with EUR 1.4 billion the previous year. The gross foreign debt of Bulgaria was 107.7 per cent of the gross domestic product as a sum of money of EUR 37.1 billion on the 30 of March 2010. ...
... How many are the judges, prosecutors and lawyers in Bulgaria? What is the salary of a judge in Bulgaria? What is the rate of lawyer’s fee in Bulgaria? The Chairman of the Prosecutors’ office of the city of Sofia, probably the most important prosecutors’ office in Bulgaria, reported in 2010 that there were total number of 1,299 public prosecutors in Bulgaria. The news paper Trud reported on 2 of June 2010 that there were 4,688 magistrates and 8,845 other officials in the judicial system of Bulgaria. Ivan Kolev, a member and the chairman of the budget commission of the Supreme judicial council of Bulgaria reported these figures on 4 of December 2009 also. One says that the magistrates in Bulgaria include judges and public prosecutors so the judges have to be 3,389. The news paper Sega reported on 4 of December 2009 that the minimum monthly salary in 2009 of a magistrate in the regional court in Bulgaria was 1,430 BGN, in the district court was 1,830 BGN and in the supreme courts was 2,650 BGN. The magistrates in Bulgaria had additionally 2 per cent per each year period of time work and the limit was up to 40 per cent of the salary. There were 4,704 lawyers registered as members of the Sofia bar association of lawyers and the total number of lawyers in Bulgaria was 11,357 in 2009 as it was announced in the State gazette of Bulgaria issue Nr. 7 on 26 of January 2010. There were lawyers in the respective local regional lawyers associations as follows in the towns of Blagoevgrad 332 lawyers; Bourgas 575 lawyers; Varna 995 lawyers; Veliko Tarnovo 213; Vidin 123 lawyers; Vratza 137 lawyers; Gabrovo 105 lawyers; Dobritch 165 lawyers; Kardjali 62 lawyers; Kiustendil 204 lawyres; Lovetch 114 lawyers; Montana 177 lawyers; Pazardjik 244 lawyers; Pernik 174 lawyers; Pleven 216 lawyers; Plovdiv 1040 lawyers; Razgrad 92 lawyers; Rousse 308 lawyers; Silistra 88 lawyers; Sliven 164 lawyers; Smolyan 94 lawyers; Sofia 4704 lawyers; Stara Zagora 373 lawyers; Targovishte 85 lawyers; Haskovo 300 lawyers; Shumen 160 lawyers; Yambol 113. The lawyers and junior lawyers were written together only in Veliko Tarnovo and Yambol probably for the reason to look more laweyrs. All other junior lawyers were written in separate number as they were a couple in most local regional lawyers associations. The minimum lawyer’s fee for agreed on hour base lawyer’s services is 30 euros per hour as it is in the ordinance of the minimum lawyers fee in Bulgaria. ...
... The Chairman of the Regional prosecutors’ office in Sofia reported that in 2009 each one public prosecutor in the Regional prosecutors’ office in Sofia, the biggest in Bulgaria, worked on 528 in advance to the court criminal cases files and 440 criminal cases files in the court. ...
... The Chairman of the Supreme court of Cassassion reported that there were total 600,000 court cases in Bulgaria in 2009. About 500,000 court cases were finished by the respective decisions and acts of the courts. The total number of court cases in 2009 rise by 12 per cent compare to year 200 as the biggest rise in the first instance regional courts. 20,600 new court cases were filed in the Supreme high court of cassasion of Bulgaria in 2009. 110,000 new court cases were filed in the district second instance courts, including the Court of the city of Sofia, in Bulgaria in 2009 as only 3.5 per cent of them were criminal general kind cases. Two thirds of all court cases in 2009 were filed in the regional courts in Bulgaria. The Chairman of the Supreme high court of cassasion said one judge worked on 21 court cases per one month in the Supreme high court of cassasion, 38 as one judge managed to decide only 25 of these court cases in the Court of the city of Sofia second instance court and first instance for big and special cases, and 92 court cases in the first instance Regional court of Sofia, as it is the biggest court in Bulgaria. ...
... Simeon Diankov, the Minister of finances of Bulgaria reported there were 440,000 or 5.71 per cent of the population officials or civil servants in Bulgaria in March 2010. They include 87,370 officials in the ministries and agencies, 61,170 officials in the Ministry of interior and 291,400 officials in the public sector. They are 10.6 per cent less than in 2009. Bulgaria has population of 7.7 million persons in 2006. The Minister of finances offered a new model of matrix payment of the official depending of the results of their work and an “atractive bonus” depending of demanding of work force in public and private sectors. The part of the salary of the official depending of the results has to be as much as 25 per cent that is higher than the existing percentage. The Minister of finances reported that a middle level director in the state administration has a monthly salary of 1,080 BGN plus additional payment bonuses up to the total amount of salary of 1,940 BGN or 1,000 euros. ...
The U.S. Government employs 2,690,238 people those are about 1 percent of the U.S. people. The red tape the government grind in the U.S.A. The source is the U.S. department of labor. The average 2001 government salaries in USD $ of selected profiles in the U.S.A. as follows:
102,392 patent administrator;
86,673 attorney;
64,767 accountant;
61,424 intelligent agent;
51,019 nurse;
46,533 law clerk;
32,934 police officer. ...
... How fat are the Bulgarian children? Dr. Lalka Rangelova MD, a physician and a chief expert on food and diet in the National center on health in Sofia, Bulgaria reported the result of a national survey poll on 1 of July 2010. The chief expert in Bulgaria said that 63 per cent of men and 50 per cent of women at the age of 19 till 60 years old in Bulgaria have over weight. As fat persons were estimated 22 per cent of men and 17 per cent of women in Bulgaria. The children in Bulgaria at the age of 1 till 5 years old were estimated as 11 per cent with weight over the rate as respectively 8 per cent of them had over weight and 3 per cent were estimated as fat children. The children in Bulgaria at the age of 7 years old when they began going to school in first grade were estimated as 30 per cent with weight over the rate as respectively 17 per cent of them had over weight and 13 per cent were estimated as fat children. The teenagers in Bulgaria at the age of 17 till 19 years old were estimated as boys with 22 per cent and girls with 14 per cent with weight over the rate. ...
Year 2009 Bulgaria data:
minus 5.6 percent GDP has shrinked
7.5 percent unemployment
0.6 per cent inflation
Year 2008 Bulgaria data:
6 percent GDP growth
19 percent salary growth
Year 2007 Bulgaria data:
6.2 percent GDP growth
6.9 percent unemployment
Year 2006 Bulgaria data:
6.1 percent GDP growth
6.5 percent inflation
11.46 percent unemployment
19.75 percent salary growth
Data of Bulgaria
Lay:
Bulgaria is a state in Southeastern Europe situated on the East part of the Balkan peninsula. To the North it is bordered by Romania, to the South by Turkey and Greece, to the West by the Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia, to the East by the Black Sea.
Territory:
110,912 sq km
Population:
7.7 millions
Capital:
Sofia 1.2 million inhabitants
Official language:
Bulgarian, Bulgarians write Cyrillic, the successor of the ancient Slavonic Bulgarian script. Ass. Prof. Zvetanka Raleva, Sofia University, reports in Nov. 2007, that 260 M people in the world write Cyrillic, mainly Russians. Most of the young generation in Bulgaria speak English.
Religion:
Christian-Orthodox 85 percent, Muslim 8 percent, others 7 percent
Climate and temperatures:
From the North to the South follows the temperature continental and the transitional climate, while the Southern portions are Mediterranean influenced. On the East the climate is influenced by the Black Sea: the summer is cool, the autumn is pleasant, warm and long. The four seasons - spring, summer, autumn and winter are strongly expressed.
History years:
681 Foundation of the Bulgarian State
681 till 1018 First Bulgarian Kingdom
1186 till 1396 Second Bulgarian Kingdom
1396 till 1878 Ottoman rule and resistance movement of the Bulgarians
1878 18 c. Revival. Restoration of the Bulgarian State
1878 till 1946 Third Bulgarian Kingdom
1946 Republic of Bulgaria
2007 Member of the European Union
Official Holidays:
1 January New Year
3 March National day: Commemorating liberation from the Ottoman yoke in 1878
The Easter Two days Sunday and Monday, which are defined by the Orthodox calendar
1 May Labor day
6 May St. George Day of the Bulgarian Army
24 May Day of the Bulgarian culture and the Slavonic script
6 September Day of Unification
22 September Independence day
1 November Day of the leaders of Bulgarian National Revival
25 and 26 December Christmas
Currency: Bulgarian Lev BGN
1 BGN = 0.51 EUR
