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Locomotives of the future depart from Ruse
Express Service inherited 155 years of experience in train maintenance and construction and entered the XXI century with more powerful, greener machines

The Black Wednesday: Integrated Public Transport "Through The Looking Glass"
A 57-million euro project for better urban transport infrastructure that was due for completion in 2016, but still isn’t fully operational to this day

The week: Is Bulgaria the limp pig of EU regulation, coal is (still) here, minimum wage surpasses Montenegro
Also: New Parliament is up, as well as the new 12 bn. Leva Plan

The Black Wednesday: The multimillion pit in the heart of Varna
How Varna Municipality paid 21 million euro in state money for a parking lot belonging to BSP mogul Georgi Gergov

Better late than never: Bulgaria gets a Covid response plan
How would the state manage another surge in infections and what did it botch in the past year-and-a half

The week: Bulgaria's pirate bay, a teenager investigates a minister, Trifonov breaks silence ...to say nothing
K Insights 18/06: Zaev comes and goes, exports keep on rising

A month without Borissov: something is rotten in the state of Bulgaria
State bank funding oligarchs, state firms funnelling billions into cartels and secret services loyal to the party rather than the state - these are just part of GERB’s corrupt legacy

The week: Kings of corruption named, Fresh start looms, 5 companies got 400 million euro from the budget
K insights 04/06: budget swings back to negative, Sin Cars get funding

The lost decade of Bulgaria
The governments of Boyko Borissov promised reform, but instead created an apparatus for extortion and clientelism

Elections looming large, prosecutors denied and how Bulgaria remains at the end of the GDP tail in the EU
K Insights 5/03: Controversial changes to the media law were postponed, Eurohold wants to raise 100 mln euro on the stock exchange

What’s next for Boyko Borissov, the ultimate political survivor?
While his opponents predict the end of his political career, the Prime minister seems poised to win the April 4 Parliamentary elections

K Insights: A new must-meet friend in Sofia, pandemic politics, where the road-money goes and a few really big tenders
Weekly newsletter 25-29 January

How Bulgaria let Covid-19 loose
After an ineffective first lockdown, the government sleepwalked into the second pandemic wave - with deadly consequences

The Great Patriotic Rearmament
Despite the pandemic, Bulgaria went on a military spending spree in 2020 – and pledges to continue