Bulgaria's major employer organisations and trade unions have come forward with proposals to see the country through the global economic crisis. The issue of The Sofia Echo published on December 5 2008 has full details.

This week's newspaper has two special bonuses - a four-page special feature on banking in Bulgaria, and a four-page special feature on Festive Season shopping, the latter the first of a two-part series that will be continued in the issue of The Sofia Echo on December 12.

Elsewhere in the newspaper, Alex Bivol analyses the outcome of the November 30 elections in Romania, and there is a look at the impact that the global economic crisis is having on Bulgaria's property market.

As ever, The Sofia Echo includes popular favourites such as film, venue and restaurant reviews, listings of what's on at the movies, on television and in the world of theatre and arts and our weekly social pages.

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