What’s cooking before the 2 October snap vote?

The new political season kicks off with smear campaigns, corruption allegations and president’s interference that would likely result in yet another fragmented parliament unable to support a government coalition

Day in 3 news: BSP U-turns to backs Gazprom, says caretaker gov’t; DB demands anti-Kremlin stance; Bulgaria finally gets EU funds

Day in 3 news: Former BSP MP heads Bulgargas, Economy grows in Q2, More evidence of illegal kidney transplants

Radev’s cabinet: what’s the aim?

The Donev cabinet’s first moves seem designed to overturn the legacy of the reformist Petkov gov’t - but the reasons might be more prosaic than Russian meddling

Day in 3 news: BSP calls out attack from new cabinet; Gas prices increase by 60% in August; State Oil Company closed

All the President’s men: A new caretaker cabinet under the command of Radev

Who’s who in the caretaker cabinet of Galab Donev and what is at stake for them - and Bulgaria - in the next three months

The week: A bridge worth paying for, Aurubis is at the top again and out with the hawks, in with the doves

Day in 3 news: BSP to return third mandate unfulfilled; Bulgargaz proposes 54% hike in natgas price for August, Specialized Prosecution closes probe of MP Peevski under the Magnitsky Act

Day in 3 news: BSP to announce next steps with mandate on Friday, Mortgage rates to rise by 10%, Bulgarians among the most mistrustful in state institutions

The week: "Year Zero" for anti-corruption, new cabinet or new elections, the quick end of the Gemcorp memorandum

Captured state fights back, gas storage slowly fills up and a skyscraper that is not

Radev chooses BSP for 3rd mandate; No political party wants deal with GERB; Macedonia votes for French proposal

Recipient of 3rd mandate stlll in doubt; Inflation breaks 24-year record; ICGB to manage the interconnector with Greece

The week: The best place to start fighting the corruption, Don’t count a coalition before it’s hatched, Crypto collapse

A fatal crash exposes depth of state capture, No gov’t + crypto layoffs and M&As

The week: Petkov’s tough choice, 70 (more or less) Russian diplomats & budget debacle

Day in 3 news: BSP rejects Petkov’s candidacy, DB demands Russian envoy’s expulsion, 25 stotinki off every liter of fuel

Day in 3 news: More consultations on new cabinet, Petkov’s WCC in fresh attack on Trifonov, Ninova and Radev trade barbs over arms for Ukraine

Petkov’s gov’t falls after no-confidence vote

The motion was passed with 123 MPs from GERB, MRF, TISP and Vazrazhdane

The new Bulgarian radical party - how worried should we be about Vazrazhdane

The leader Kostadin Kostadinov uses very well the social media and jumps on the populist anti-establishment bandwagons but cannot propose a viable agenda for governing

The week: The ruling coalition finally collapses, three scenarios for a government, and the economy grows despite everything

Bulgaria’s anti-inflation measures: chaos and populism

The government will spend 2 billion levs on populist measures without targeting the most vulnerable groups in society