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Single-bid tenders: how Bulgarian municipalities distribute money
58% of local government tenders and almost 65% of the money, or nearly half a billion levs, are distributed through controversial auctions

The week: Elections 2022: Pretend nothing’s happening; FDI down, caretaker Gov’t goes LNG
Parties lying low on big issues before vote, Energy Minister shifts stance on LNG and why do people from the "Yellow Cobblestones" cry?

Bulgaria faces first obstacles in absorbing EU Recovery funds
The debacle over the implementation of the TETRA communication equipment project threatens the allocation of 2.6 billion euro worth of EU money for Sofia

The week: water, migration, elections and a new King of Britain
K Insights 9/9: Bursting riverbeds, election apathy, and the Rolex priest warns of materialism

Radev’s revenge, the looming deficit and a frog
Reality is back with a vengeance, GDP keeps growing, and our Real Estate report is out

Budget 2023: red lights everywhere
The next government will have several options: raising taxes, increasing the deficit and debt, or reforming spending

Bulgaria’s unfinished Belene NPP: to be or not to be
In the next couple of decades, the country does not need a new nuclear capacity; by then it should decide on its nuclear energy’s future

The new euro-billions heading for Bulgaria just in time
Over the next 7 to 9 years, the country is set to receive up to 27 billion euros. The big question is their destination

Beating plowshares back into swords
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine might finally prompt the rearmament of Bulgaria’s military which has all but stalled in the past three decades

October elections or a surprise with mandate #3: What’s next for Bulgarian politics?
After WCC failed to gain sufficient support to form a new cabinet, early elections are the most likely scenario

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

Revising the budget: everyone gets what they want
The first revision of this year’s budget has become a money grab amidst economic and political uncertainty