Joint European Resources

Equifund, a financing tool to support investment funds, will start its activity in the coming weeks and is projected to boost the economy by more that 400 million euros.

Bulgaria plans to set up a state-owned firm in charge of managing EUR 777 M of EU funds over the 2014-2020 programming period, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has said.

By Dimitra Manifava

They are new, innovative and experiencing rapid growth or the potential for it, which is particularly important in the context of the country’s prolonged recession: Greek start-up enterprises currently number 144, from just 16 in 2010, having created a total of 1,500 jobs in the innovation sector.