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How superstition proved stronger than vaccines in Bulgaria
Kapital Insights and Friedrich Naumann Foundation present the second installment of "The Chronicles of the Infodemic"

The week: The cynicism of demographic mourners, final week of parliamentary dramas and GDP records
Politicians play deaf and blind on stagnant vaccinations, but mourn demographic collapse, pensions, GDP go up - and so could concession fees

Vaccines, disinformation and Bulgaria
Kapital Insights and Friedrich Naumann Foundation present "The Chronicles of the Infodemic"


The Black Wednesday: A 13 Million Sports Hall With The Revenue Of A Corner-Store
The story of one of many government-built arenas designed not to support sport, but to boost friendly infrastructure companies

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

Elections 2021, volume 2: Trifonov finally proposes a cabinet (and a Bulgarian-N.Macedonian Space Mission)
With GERB and There is such a people running neck and neck, the showman nominates Simeon II acolyte Nickolay Vassilev for Prime Minister and spurns coalition

16 centuries later: the Bishop’s Basilica of Plovdiv reopens as a kingdom of mosaics
A 10-million euro PPP between Plovdiv Municipality, America for Bulgaria Foundation and many other organizations has made this historic landmark the best museum in the country

Journalists SLAPPed, threatened and pressured; cabinet purges "kalinki", while Left and Right gear up for elections
The troubles of being a journalist in Bulgaria, every final decision is penultimate and who are the ladybirds of the administration

The dismantling of Borissov’s state has begun
The caretaker gov’t of Stefan Yanev is wasting little time in changing key cogs in the machine created by the previous authorities

Construction business: the largest builder in Bulgaria
How Veliko Zhelev turned his Hidrostroy company into an empire

The elections are finally here, World Bank and the US criticize Bulgaria, tourism is down 70%
K Insights 02/04: the lockdown ends; how to buy something that doesn't have a price

Digital startups get funding, BDB acquires stake in baby-shoe maker, Automotive sector expands near Plovdiv
Short business stories from the past month

How the pandemic doubled the business of Ozone.bg
The online retailer opened a new logistics center worth 4 mln euro, plans to build a second one, and has a new company under its belt

Bulgaria’s new factories
Investment projects worth less than 430 mln levs were announced in 2020 - a third of the amount in 2019

Bulgaria’s (non-)recovery plan
Bulgaria stands to receive 12 billion levs (6.1 billion euro) in 2021-2026 from the Recovery Plan for Europe, and will be spending the funding as it always has - on weak, ineffective projects

Is Sofia about to lose some of its air connections
Shortly before the start of its concession contract, state-owned Sofia Airport unveiled a plan to drastically raise its fees. Complaints from the biggest airlines using the airport put the plan on hold until after the general election expected in March.

In focus: The smaller economies of northern Bulgaria
The economic indicators of the regions of Shumen and Targovishte lag behind national averages but population trends are optimistic