Foreign direct investments (FDI) in Bulgaria in the first quarter of 2015
reached 317.3 milion euro ($361.8 million), a 3.5-fold increase as compared to
the like period a year earlier, the country's investment promotion agency said
on Tuesday.
FDI in the first quarter was equivalent to 0.7% of the
country's gross domestic product (GDP), InvestBulgaria agency said in a press
release.
Investments worth more than 400 million levs are planned for the
next 2-3 years which would open around 3,000 jobs, the agency's executive
director Stamen Yanev said in the press release.
Yanev also said that the
2% GDP growth registered in the first quarter of the year indicates that
business climate in the country is improving.