The week: The trick with the migrant scare

Don’t let the news fool you, How flat should a tax be, and a Bishop dreams of heading the Church

The day in 3 news: NRA And Customs Agency To Merge, Zheleznitsa Tunnel To Greece Officially Launched, Anti-monopoly Committee Greenlights Saudi Telecom Yettel Deal

The week: 3 focal points to watch out for post-Schengen

Bulgaria gets a half-Schengen, Peevski gets a half party, and something awful is going on in the police

The blockade of the Danube Bridge

The estimated value of the repairs is BGN 21 million and will take 2 years to finish. Meanwhile, there is no alternative route

The week: "Year Zero" for anti-corruption, new cabinet or new elections, the quick end of the Gemcorp memorandum

Captured state fights back, gas storage slowly fills up and a skyscraper that is not

The day in 3 news: Minchev ousted as Parliament Speaker, Army audit paints grim picture of Bulgarian defense, 7 road firms won 5 billion BGN in tenders during Borissov’s reign

The day in 3 news: Kuleba rebukes Radev for "brotherly nations" comment, NATO Military Committee chair on visit, Parliament ok’s road construction firms funding

The day in 3 news: von der Leyen visits to approve Resilience plan, Russian Embassy now skirts "Heroes of Ukraine", Road Agency nebulously awards 2.4 billion BGN for road repairs

The abandoned roads of Bulgaria

The Struma tragedy is unique in scale, but follows years of negligence and poor oversight

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: Taking its Toll

The first of a series of publications about the corruption that has plagued Bulgaria. How the state allowed gaps in the Road Toll system that cost taxpayers millions

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

Russia is back, Parliament is stuck, universities and politics don't mix well, and Sofia Airport is now private

K Insights 23/04: Some problems in the budget and a hope for sunshine in North Macedonia

The day in 3 news: Local authorities plan new restrictions, RIA turns to Struma highway’s smart systems, GERB-SDS get extra funds for media campaigning

The day in 3 news: Sofia’s GDP grew by 15% pre-crisis, Bulgaria’s corruption rank still worst in EU, RIA has no issues with Avtomagistrali

The largest construction companies

In addition to paying, the state is now constructing as well

Forgotten scandals

An update to the list of transgressions of the powerful that remained buried in the news of protests and pandemics.

The loophole of in-house procurement

The in-house procurement procedures – the awarding of public contracts without tenders, has become a favorite way to allocate money in a non-transparent manner

Bulgarian PM’s pride

Boyko Borissov often boasts of the infrastructure improvements made during his tenure but the process is uneven and mired in inconsistencies and bad planning

Corruption Watch: When it walks like corruption, when it quacks like corruption...

Beneficiaries of unlawful forest swaps get minor punishment