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.

Over 40% of businesses expect 2025 to be worse – BIA survey

Glavchev’s caretaker cabinet has the approval of 21% of respondents, the judiciary garners only 1%, trust in parliament stands at 0%

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

Day in 3 news: Budget committee backs 2024 budget extension; Defense ministry seals deal to boost AI resources; Farmers face subsidy loss if labor violations occur

The year: 2025 is here with open borders, electricity cuts, gas shortages, and a hope for peace

K Insights: 03/01/25

Mining sector targeted with a new tax in an attempt to fill budget holes

The finance ministry has proposed changes to the law on underground resources to raise revenues by BGN 900 million a year

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 week: The budget debacle, BETL sink, Schengen opens, GNR to play in Sofia

K Insights 13/12

State bets on 2.8% economic growth and lower wage increases in 2025

Public spending will underpin higher growth rates, private consumption will slow down

The day in 3 news: Syria’s regime change greeted with caution; Aurubis Bulgaria sees profit growth for 2023/24; Avtomagistrali wins new contract without open tenders

Day in 3 News: Parliament breaks deadlock, elects Natalia Kiselova as speaker; State bets on 2.8% growth, lower wage increase in 2025; 10% planned rise in social security contribution

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

The day in 3 news: Sarafov hearing set for 16 January; Parliament still gridlocked after another failed vote for speaker; University SLAPPs ex-teacher with 650,000 levs claim

Day in 3 News: Ninth attempt to select parliament speaker collapses; Prosecution lets Putinist investigate Gebrev poisoning; Faith in current political model eroding: Radev

Day in 3 News: No decision on Parliament speaker; IT company buys emblematic Sofia mansion; Factory prices are a mess

The week: Drained to zero

Bulgaria loves a scam, Big trouble brews for TurkStream and a Romanian Tik-Tok warning

Day in 3 News: Bulgaria misses EU deadline; Seventh vote - but still no speaker in parliament; Industry is optimistic in November

Day in 3 News: Borissov declines dialogue with WCC-DB; Nationwide protests against violence towards women; Sofia’s air quality worsens

Day in 3 News: Bulgaria inches closer to full Schengen membership; Still no parliament speaker; MFA protests ICC’s Netanyahu arrest warrant

The week: Water under the mountain

We destroyed the largest battery we had, Why Bulgaria is stuck, A tax amnesty on the horizon