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Protests, corruption and hiding from fans: Bulgaria’s football reaches a boiling point
Bulgarian football is going down for years, but the exclamation point is now

The week: No country for new dogs
What Plovdiv teaches us about Bulgaria, 50 Shades of grey money, and some horror (thankfully, on the screen)

The week: The mystery of the Bulgarian housing market
The (very) strange Bulgarian housing market, a not so strange election and a bag of coke

Visiting Neo, then Tar: the cinematic paintings of Boryana Ilieva
Ilieva, known for her Floor Plan Croissant project, creates watercolors based on film sets, which has made her a phenomenon in the film industry

Business meets government for the 17th time: what’s next for Bulgaria in 2024
Joining the Eurozone by the end of 2025 is "quite realistic," while the rotation cabinet might last more than 18 months, PM Nikolay Denkov told the conference organized by Capital

The week: The case of the missing investments, (G)rain of protests, renewables boom
How not to lose another decade

Supreme judges oust Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev
After ignoring much more serious allegations for two years, the SJC hastily dismissed Geshev on Monday evening over the term "political trash"

The week: First red flags for the new majority, Geshev’s last stand and a dead man crossing borders
Is the second "historic compromise" going to end up like the first?

Laundering Borissov, purging the secret services, coordinating with embassies: What froze cabinet talks?
A leaked discussion of WCC’s National Council has jeopardized government negotiations with GERB

The week: A coalition is (still) born, a mobster is killed, and a Booker is won
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Last-minute rotation: GERB and WCC-DB agree on a government
It will be formed with the second mandate of Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov and will have Mariya Gabriel as his deputy. They will then swap positions after nine months.

Geshev throws down gauntlet to Borissov after resignation call
PM-nominee Mariya Gabriel’s proposal to oust the Prosecutor General plunges the institution into civil war