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The President of the National Statistical Council (NSC), Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Tosheva, PhD participated in a seminar of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC), which took place in Athens in the period of 26-27 March 2025. The event was organized in close cooperation between the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) and Eurostat under the moto “Statistical priorities in Europe: the users’ perspective and mechanisms for consultations”.

The Executive Director of the Kosovo Agency of Statistics, Avni Kastrati, and the Population Registration Manager, Ylli Shala, were on a two-day visit to the NSI. The purpose of the visit was to discuss at a high level the possibilities for future cooperation in the field of statistics between the two institutions.

The Deputy-President of NSI, Svilen Kolev, PhD, participated as a moderator in the international scientific conference “New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics” (NTTS), which was held in the period of 11 – 13 March 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The biennial scientific conference is organized by Eurostat. More than 500 participants from over 70 countries took part in this year’s edition. The event was also broadcast online.

The President of the National Statistical Institute, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD participated in the 56th Session of the UN Statistical Commission (UNSC), which took place in New York. Traditionally, the moto of the event was “Better data. Better lives” and was attended by the heads of the statistical offices of all 193 UN Member States. Maria Gochova, the Head of the International Relations and Projects Department of the NSI, also attended the meeting.

A dozen sympathizers of the “Revival” political party gathered today in front of the building of the National Statistical Institute in protest, under the pretext that inflation data is being falsified in connection with the country’s accession to the Eurozone.

The President of NSI Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and Maria Gochova – Head of the International Relations and Projects Department, took part in the 58th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), which was held in Luxemburg.

The theme of this year’s European Statistical Forum, which was attended by the President of NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD is “Closing the data gaps on climate change”. The event took place in Brussels, Belgium on 16-17 January 2025 and was hosted by Eurostat and Directorate-General Statistics of the European Central Bank. In the opening session, the Commissioner for Economy and Productivity; Implementation and Simplification, Valdis Dombrovskis, whose area of responsibility also includes Eurostat, addressed the participants.

The National Statistical Institute published an electronic newsletter about its international cooperation activities in 2024. The newsletter is prepared by the “International Relations and Projects” Department and is available in Bulgarian and English language. The document contains information and photographic material about the participation of the NSI’s management in high-level forums and meetings within the European Statistical System, the UN Statistical System and other international organisations. 

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) calculated by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) is in line with the European Union (EU) requirements and is comparable to that of other Member States. This is the main finding of the Eurostat report, which reflects the results of an assessment of Bulgaria's compliance with the existing legal framework and established recommendations for HICPs, as well as other guidelines and good practices in the area of consumer price indices.

The Deputy President of the NSI Svilen Kolev, PhD participated with a report and as a moderator during the 17th International Conference on Applied Statistics, which was held in the period of 14 – 15 November 2024 in Bucharest, Romania. The event was organized by the National Institute of Statistics of Romania and the Department of Statistics and Econometrics of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.