How the Half-Baked Constitutional Changes Brought Back GERB

And Other Problems with the Upcoming Early Vote

The week: We’re still on the outskirts of an Empire, The most important regulator, Real estate deals keep coming down

The week: Going nuclear (again)

The new Bulgarian mega-dream, eurozone delayed, Nexo comes back with a vengeance

The week: A very sudden twist

Slapping Russia in the face, Borissov is not corrupt, Open-air teaching gets a boost

The week: More than one storm brewing in the Black Sea, Brussels’ pressure and TurkStream revelations

Bulgaria, where natural catastrophes meet ungovernability

Radev’s revenge, the looming deficit and a frog

Reality is back with a vengeance, GDP keeps growing, and our Real Estate report is out

The day in 3 news: Kozloduy NPP has new management; KTB couldn't defend after its license was revoked; The state will pay for Hemus highway construction

The day in 3 news: Five TISP MPs defect, EU Court of Justice rejects Bulgaria's Mobility Package appeal, ECHR rules against Sofia over inadequate response to homophobic murder

Borissov’s arrest: What we know so far

The Internal Ministry’s surprise operation against the former PM and high level GERB cadres came just a few hours after the head of the EU Prosecution visited Sofia

The day in 3 news: EU remains concerned about Prosecution General impunity, Vassil Bozhkov accused of treason, ECHR fines Bulgaria for Turkish journalist extradition

The day in 3 news: Mass vaccinations to start immediately; EU condemns Bulgaria’s failure to investigate racism; elevator factory from the "Eight Dwarfs" investigation looted

The day in 3 news: Defense Ministry to appoint 730-million contract to state-owned company, 39 million euro to support medium-sized business, Bulgarian GDP falls 3,8% in last quarter of 2020

The day in 3 news: GERB’s chances of a post-election government shrank, vaccination locations will be on Google maps, German guns from Gabrovo

Obtaining investment protection in Bulgaria

The spiking political risk and the termination of Intra-EU bilateral investment treaty program are conflating in a dangerous spiral

A Martyr of (Anti)corruption

Desislava Ivancheva, the ex-mayor of Sofia’s Mladost district, received the heaviest graft sentence in recent Bulgarian history but the authorities’ handling of the case stirred public outrage and sympathy for her.

The Mayor with Luminescent Hands

Desislava Ivancheva rose to fame as an anti-status quo mayor of a Sofia district and fell in the first publicity stunt of the newest institution supposed to fight high-level graft in Bulgaria