The week: The elusive recipe for anti-corruption

Anti-corruption is difficult everywhere, 79 regulatory seats for the taking (if we discount the Patriarch’s and the PM’s)

Bulgaria is still a captured state. The machine voting debacle proved it

The last-minute alteration of the voting rules showed that Bulgaria remains governed by a corrupt Mafia

Local elections, round 1: GERB loses Sofia, keeps Burgas and draws in Plovdiv and Varna

The ballot was marred by a fabricated scandal that eliminated machine voting

The day in 3 news: Scholz: Bulgaria meets the Schengen area entry requirements; Waiting for an answer from Gazprom; Record deficit of 11.3 bln levs in 2023 budget

Recipient of 3rd mandate stlll in doubt; Inflation breaks 24-year record; ICGB to manage the interconnector with Greece

The week: Petkov’s tough choice, 70 (more or less) Russian diplomats & budget debacle

The day in 3 news: No-confidence vote due next Wednesday, Skopje veto talks at "dead end":Varhelyi, Trade deficit reaches 1.3 billion euro for first 4 months of 2022

The week: A new coalition was born, the billions for the road cartel were halted, what the hell has gone wrong with the Bulgarian army

"We will bring you down", we have 2.5 billion reasons to do so + an MP not afraid of going back to her village

Gov’t teeters on brink after six stormy months

With TISP pledging to support GERB’s vote of no-confidence next week and the ruling coalition at least six MPs short of keeping its majority, Petkov’s cabinet looks terminal

The day in 3 news: GERB triggers no-confidence vote against Petkov cabinet, TISP attacks PM over N. Macedonia policy, Inflation reaches 15.6% in May

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

The day in 3 news: TSP accuses PM of trying to bribe its MP’s, New nominee for head of the anti-corruption commission, Row over Macedonia ‘timeline’

The day in 3 news: Petkov asks Radev to convene the National Council for N. Macedonia; Radev frets about the coalition; Refugees can stay in hotels in summer

Is the coalition going to survive? Six obstacles ahead

The four-party coalition wants to bury the rising number of contentious topics confronting it - but this can only work for a while

Ending with a bang: How the November elections got exciting

The entry of a brand new popular movement and two serious contenders for President Rumen Radev’s office have turned an already unpredictable 2 in 1 vote into a cliffhanger

Bulgarian politics enters chaotic fall

With parliament’s days numbered, uncertainty reigns - especially over the logistics of the third national election

The Week: Russia’s silent move, Parliament in mayhem, Housing market booms

Old faces, new falls from grace and a BMW you can buy cheap

Another parliament (eventually) bites the dust

With all potential TISP allies withdrawing support for Plamen Nikolov’s cabinet - and the withdrawal of the Prime Minister-nominee himself, new elections are imminent

The Week: Plovdiv wins clean air battle, no cabinet in sight and an Olympic gold

Can you clean Plovdiv in a year, why industry in Bulgaria shut down for a week and who jumped into the deep end of politics

How close is Bulgaria to having a (functional) government?

After bashing the status quo factions for months, Slavi Trifonov fell out with the other "protest" parties and depends on BSP and GERB to form a government