(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 29 AGO - The annual flow of net foreign
investment in Bulgaria decreased almost 10 times between 2007
and 2017, a report of the Bulgarian Industrial Association
revealed, local media in Sofia reported.
Foreign direct investments (FDI) into Bulgaria amounted to
about nine billion euro in 2007, the year in which Bulgaria
entered the European Union, falling to 0.9 billion in 2017, the
portal Balkan Insight informed. Fdi were 27.9% of GDP back in
2007, while in 2017 they were only 1.9% of GDP in 2017, "a
15-fold decrease," the news agency Novinite added.
"There is a total collapse of foreign investment in the
country," said Kamen Kolev, deputy president of the Bulgarian
Industrial Association, quoted by Balkan Insight, while the
president of the group, Radosvet Radev, noted that "we have
reached a level at which remittances coming from Bulgarians who
live abroad outperform foreign investors." (ANSA).
© Copyright ANSA - All rights reserved