Bulgaria: milk producers barely break even

The Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) has highlighted a troubling disparity in Bulgaria’s dairy sector: consumers face some of the highest prices for dairy products in the European Union, while local producers and processors struggle to survive. On March 10, the CPC convened a meeting in Plovdiv with dairy producers and processors from…

Estonia: industrial output up in January 2026

Industrial enterprises produced 5.9% more in January at constant prices than at the same time in 2025. Output increased in all three industrial sectors: mining, manufacturing and energy. Output in mining rose by 10.7%, manufacturing by 3.1% and energy production by 21.7%. Riin Kadarik, a leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, noted that the volume of…