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Bulgaria topped the list of foreign investments in the Balkans


Bulgaria is the best destination for foreign investment in the Balkans according to the rating of the magazine Foreign Policy.Our country is on the 28 - th place out of 112 countries included in the study .

D he Director of the Bulgarian Investment Agency (BIA) Svetoslav Mladenov assured that by the end of the year, foreign direct investment ( FDI ) will increase to 1.2 billion. Hope for this increase wear announced plans for the implementation of 28 projects, which are intended to create more than 22.6 thousand jobs.

In May , however, FDI is only 8.6 million against 151.8 million a year ago, revealed preliminary data of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) the state of balance of payments at the end of May 2014

For the first five months of the year, foreign investors have invested in our total 302.6 million, or 33.77% less than the same period last year. Oh tons in January to May 2013 direct investments were for 456 9 million lev

Major investors in Bulgaria are companies from the Netherlands and Austria. The trend for the first half of 2014 remains - investments come from the same country and are aimed at the usual sectors - manufacturing industry and transport, reported IBA.