The week: Schengen will transform Bulgaria, Business says it will die without state aid, What’s an Old Style Church?

The week: Bulgaria's population is going to grow in 2025, There might be a government soon, Trading babies for grain

K Insights 20/12

The biggest employers: strong wage growth, stagnant hiring

The ranking of the top 200 companies by staff for 2023 shows layoffs in the automotive, bicycle and call center sectors, while IT and supermarket chains keep hiring

Day in 3 News: Natural disasters increase by 50% in 2023; Budget deficit contracts by 1.9%; Record electricity imports and prices in November

Bulgaria’s 2025 Budget: We Have a Problem

Instead of voting for more populism-driven spending, parliament has to consider unpopular measures to tighten state finances

Day in 3 News: Vitosha factory site will be apartment complex; Labor market stagnates; End of year spending must be curbed for Eurozone goals

A Scandinavian company is Sofia’s largest landlord

SEE Residential has six buildings with more than 200 apartments in the city center and plans to have 1000 by 2030

The day in 3 news: Peevski excludes Dogan's faction; EC approves Yettel deal; BG-Alert test set for next week

National Bank and FSC to sheriff crypto’s Wild West

A new law on crypto-assets introduces regulation of the sector in the country, which will require the licensing of service providers

The day in 3 news: beam grows further; Housing construction slows in Sofia; Eleven Ventures invests again in Turkey

The day in 3 news: Bulgaria sends artillery to Kyiv; Young shun politics for fake news; Revolut accrues 60 million euros for economy

The week in news: Protests "for" and "against" anti-LGBTQ bill, Average salary closes 2,300 leva and three major corruption scandals

The Historical Park inquiry: a 70 million levs scam and links to Russian intelligence

The executive director of the park Ivelin Mihaylov worked with Putin’s Night Wolves, DANS claims

General Toshevo: wind park for 800 million levs in no man’s land

Bureaucracy and politics have put major wind energy investment on hold for years - until now

Day in 3 news: June records dip in production prices; Moodys to lower Bulgaria’s rating due to Eurozone; Stagnation in new commercial spots

More foreign workers are coming to Bulgaria but there are still many vacancies

Turks save seasonal employment, and Kyrgyz people are employed in hotels and restaurants, but this is not solving the personnel shortfall

Day in 3 news: WCC-DB sets conditions for mandate; 1 million levs worth of cocaine found at border, Heatwave causes hundreds of fires

Bulgaria Economic Trends: Wage Growth Slowing Down

Wage increases are expected to decelerate this year, ranging between 5% and 14%

The day in 3 news: Yoncheva will be MEP for Peevski; GERB, MRF dominate Roma regions; Paysera has IPO for 1.15 million levs

The day in 3 news: Third bridge for Danube; 40% of Bulgaria is ‘desert’; Smart Organic 1st firm to go from BEAM to BSE