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Draft Budget 2025 Stuck in Limbo
For now, there is no parliamentary majority to advance the controversial draft budget of the caretaker cabinet to a vote.

The week: A map of industrial brilliance
Factory of the Year is Solvay, Bulgaria loses some European money, How to destroy a 2000-year-old Basilica

BETL: Bulgaria’s newest financial pyramid
A British company promises fabulous profits by renting out batteries to charge phones. More than 12 thousand Bulgarians have already invested in the scheme

The week: Why Nations Fail in football and elections
One night in Belfast, What is wrong with the Air Force, Varna ex-mayor is sinking

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

10 Years After the Collapse of CCB: Where Are the Key Figures Now?
A decade after the closure of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), there are still no convictions, and the mega-trial for draining its accounts is going nowhere

The largest hybrid project in the region is in the Bulgarian town of Razlog
The batteries were installed at a 33-megawatt solar park near Razlog, owned by Investo Partners, the ultimate owner of which is the Austria based Renalfa IPP

Bulgaria has utilized only 4% of European funds since 2021
For the first time since joining the EU, Bulgaria has got along with almost no European funding for several years

The Notary vs. the Euro: the Judicial Pandora’s box
The assassination of influence peddler Martin Bozhanov exposed the rotten core of the Bulgarian prosecution and might cause a civil war within it

The week: A second private border?
A private Schengen, Elections loom again, How hard is it to buy trains

The redesigning of the 8 billion euros agricultural subsidies plan
The changes are triggered by the low interest shown in certain programs.

An academy for shepherds
Due to the great interest in the course, the owner of the Po Todorovi Koshari farm Todor Georgiev will be organizing a second edition in November

Louis Vuitton bags, millions of euro and no sign of corruption: the Bozhkov lottery story
The full text of the decree terminating the case for extortion of the mogul by Boyko Borissov and Vladislav Goranov gives a detailed chronology of the affair, but won’t reach court

The week: The black-hole constellation
New mayors are in - money is out, who owns the Interior Minister and more chess champions

What if your business data was stored in an American cloud instead of a European one?
A new EU rule that aims to strengthen digital sovereignty may put smaller European companies relying on the US tech giants at risk

Local elections, round 1: GERB loses Sofia, keeps Burgas and draws in Plovdiv and Varna
The ballot was marred by a fabricated scandal that eliminated machine voting

The week: Bulgaria's coal reckoning - this is not the 80's
Why Stara Zagora is no Yorkshire, what the hell is happening on the housing market and a Bright Mind

100 days of the Denkov-Gabriel gov’t: what was (not) done?
Beyond its pro-Ukrainian tilt, the cabinet has so far only been noted for its appointment scandals, its dependency on MRF and the absence of promised key reforms