Foreign investor joins Botevgrad-based family business

With CEECAT Capital now majority owner of plastic food packaging producer Teda Pack the business is primed to grow

What stands behind the arcane $1 billion investment memorandum with Gemcorp and IP3 funds?

Kapital Insights sheds light on the main points of the controversial memorandum signed by the two investment funds and the government

Anti-Corruption Fund cites lack of progress; Electricity tariffs rise; BSP continue 3rd mandate talks

Increase in real estate deals slows down in Q2 compared to first one

Sofia doesn’t see an increase in deals and other big cities also feel the cooling of the market

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

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

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

The week: Bulgaria’s economy is (surprise, surprise) doing very well, the real estate market - not so much, and some dolphins get religious

Don’t do stupid shit and things are going to get better

Radev to starts talks on third mandate Friday; Bulgaria is No 1 in Europe for industrial production in May; GERB and WCC vie for first spot: poll

Winter is coming, but natural gas is not: what is going on in Bulgaria?

In July, the energy regulator adopted the highest natural gas price so far this year for the regulated market

Price cap on fuels under review; Semerdziev on drugs charge; EC: Bulgaria making some progress on rule of law

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

Sofia warns Skopje after anti-Bulgarian protests; President Radev: best time for elections is October; Bulgarians get news mostly from TV and social media

KInsights' Energy Report: Dashboard

Four graphs that show the long-term trends in the Bulgarian energy sector

Democratic Bulgaria to seek support from WCC if it gets third gov’t mandate; Interpol: Semerdziev drove with a fake Swiss driving license; 25 stotinki fuel discount from today

Billion-dollar U.S. company to build medical equipment plant in Parvomay

California-based Intuitive Surgical to invest 80 million levs in the production of instruments for robot-assisted surgery

Day in 3 news: Vassilev returns gov’t mandate unfulfilled, Supreme Judicial Council fails to sack Geshev, MPs unanimously hike VAT registration threshold to 100,000 BGN

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

Day in 3 news: Radev raps gov’t over Russian diplomats, Bulgargaz seeks 32% gas price hike for July, Municipality proposes "covert" privatization of Sofia Central Heating

Canada’s Trillion Energy to resume exploration for natural gas near Dobrich

The project was shelved a few years ago but rising prices have revived the interest in it