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The week: Time to escape the German economic embrace
The German curse of the industry, Peevski wins, BNB tries to curb house lending

House Prices in Bulgaria Soar Again
NSI reported a record increase in housing prices in the country - by 16% year-on-year in the first quarter

Who is Evelin Banev-Brendo, the narcotrafficker who handed himself in last week?
The mafioso with over 30 years of accumulated sentences abroad goes to prison, but his high-level protectors won’t

The week: A vacuum spot on the EU map
We’re not the poorest in the EU anymore, yet we’re still mute, and a drug lord decides to go to prison

First Investment Bank up for sale - sources
UniCredit Bulbank and Postbank vie to acquire Bulgaria’s fifth largest lender

The week: Lessons in change from Philadelphia, Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, Fibank is for sale
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The week: Rumors of Bulgarian extinction are greatly exaggerated
For once, good demographic news; gambling ban - better late than never and a big mining investment

K10: The Best Banks of 2023
UniCredit Bulbank again leads the Capital Weekly’s ranking of banks in Bulgaria, UBB is now the largest bank, DSK reports record profit

The week: How hard is it to buy trains?
The train won't be coming, The free electricity market neither, And the new Constitution is a mess

Jun Young-Jun, CEO of Hyundai E&C: We Will Engage 10,000 Workers for the New Reactors at the Kozloduy NPP
"Securing competitive financing will be crucial for the success of the project," says the CEO of the Korean company in an interview

How GERB built Putin a pipeline, part 2: the laundering road of 3 billion leva through an Arab company
Turkstream used offshore companies and the financial capacity of Gazprombank

DSK, UniCredit Bulbank Plan to Distribute Over 1 Billion Levs in Dividends
Most of the 3.4 billion levs (1.7 billion euro) profit reported by the banking sector for 2023 will be reinvested

The week: Brace, the rotation is coming
The Suddenly-important Ministry, More Russian spies pop up, and Meta buys a company

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

Euphoria Fading on Bulgaria's Housing Market
After peaking in 2021-2022, transactions and, construction permits are now declining, and price growth is slowing down

Bulgaria in 2023: The year in review
KInsights’ chronology of a turbulent year - and on what’s to come