Actuarial science

Two Cypriot companies have made it onto this year's list of the 1,000 fastest-growing European businesses, a chart compiled on an annual basis by British newspaper Financial Times in collaboration with the German data analysis company Statista.

The list ranks companies based on their compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the period of 2019-2022.

Renowned geographer and writer, Georgi Bardarov, sheds light on Bulgaria's critical demographic challenges, emphasizing the far-reaching consequences of present actions on society in the next 15 years.

Our differences with Turkey are not going to be resolved anytime soon or easily. But this does not mean that communication with our eastern neighbor should stop - quite the opposite.

Contacts, even when not negotiating, help to defuse tension and reduce the risk of an "accident," and this has been clearly witnessed in the last 10 months. 

The European Commission on Thursday decided to refer Greece to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to provide updated flood risk and flood hazard maps as required by its floods directive. 

The parliament has approved a law that aims to speed up the process of urban transformation in areas that face earthquake risk.

Life expectancy in Cyprus declined to 81.3 years in 2021, as the latest data released by Eurostat, the statistical service of the European Union, reveal.

Bulgaria continues to have the lowest life expectancy at birth in the European Union, according to Eurostat data from 2021, which assesses various factors influencing longevity. This alarming trend raises questions about living conditions and health within the country.

Compensation payable by insurance companies for property damage inflicted during the wildfires in the summer of 2023 is estimated at almost 49 million euros, according to a report compiled by the Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies (HAIC), released on Thursday.

Greek society is aging and experiencing great changes in its structural characteristics, according to the results of the 2021 population census, which were released on Friday by the Hellenic Statistical Authority.

More specifically, the permanent population of Greece is 10,482,487 people, down by 3.1% compared to 10 years earlier.

All the leading business media outlets reported yesterday that the price of natural gas in Europe has sharply risen by 40 percent, which is a sign that a chasm of energy uncertainty and insecurity could once again open beneath the old continent.