Bulgaria's unemployment rate stood at 5.21% in June, increasing by 0.03 percentage points from May and rising by 0.12 compared to June 2025, the Employment Agency said on Friday.
Bulgarian venture capital (VC) firm BrightCap Ventures said on Friday that it participated in a $10 million (8.7 million euro) investment into U.S.-based AI vehicle inspection startup Self Inspection.
Bulgaria's TBI Bank said on Friday that it is providing a 7.85 million euro ($9 million) loan to Romanian real estate developer Redesign to fund the continued development of its Stejeris residential project in the central city of Brasov.
The net flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Bulgaria surged to 2.28 billion euro ($2.6 billion) in the first five months of 2026 from 535.3 million euro in the same period last year, the central bank said on Friday.
Bulgaria's current account was in deficit of 4.23 billion euro ($4.8 billion) at the end of May, compared with a deficit of 1.91 billion euro a year earlier, the central bank said on Friday.