The week: A prosecutor-general heads out, an EUcommissioner comes in, and an American president drops by

No Euro in 2024: Why did Bulgaria give up trying to join the eurozone next year?

Parliament’s failure to adopt 4 key pieces of legislation, a purposeful abstention from the amendment of the Insurance code and high inflation will delay currency union entry

The week: The public shaming of Sofia continues, Record wage growth, A slap from across the Danube

K Insights Weekly Newsletter 17/02

The new Magnitsky sanctions for Bulgaria: Who has been named and why

The US continues its anti-corruption pressure in tandem with the UK, by adding two former ministers, two former MPs and an energy official to the list

The day in 3 news: New Magnitsky sanctions for Bulgarian officials; Radev meets Zelensky; Imports and exports grow in 2022

Day in 3 news: The state will buy out the main gas consumer; Petkov sues Borissov; Court rules GERB leader’s arrest was illegal

Does Bulgaria really have 213,000 bitcoins?

Five years after the first information that the Bulgarian state had seized crypto worth billions of dollars, inside sources and other information from the new cabinet reveal that there were never any bitcoins at all

The day in 3 news: PM: Russia uses local-level corruption to influence the Balkans; Bulgarian Navy checks mine alert in the Black Sea; Prosecution refuses to investigate Peevski

The week: 100 days of hell, the missing half a billion and a mysterious crash at a large dam

A baptism of fire, a new port on the Aegean and an ambassador worth throwing out

The day in 3 news: Prosecution to probe Petkov over Borissov arrest, President Radev offers helmets for Ukrainian civilians, Labor costs rise at the end of 2021

The day in 3 news: Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office to investigate Borissov; Arrest could be for 556 mln levs owed to state; Bulgaria expels 10 Russian diplomats

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 week: Borissov arrested, Central Bank chairmanship tears the coalition, Resilience Plan still not ok

Former PM Borissov arrested, Guerilla war over BNB shakes the coalition and the Plan is still NOT alright

The day in 3 news: Tax checks on ex-ministers, Bulgaria wants talks with Russia, another scandal in state-owned firm

The lost decade of Bulgaria

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

A slap from across the ocean, a 4.2% drop in GDP and are there really so many vandals around here

Budget revenues rise even during the pandemic

Bulgaria’s budget gap widened in 2020 but the worst forecasts failed to materialize

Corona-debt

Bulgaria raised 2.5 billion euro through the sale of Eurobonds under favorable conditions in September. The question is what the GERB-led government coalition will do with the money

Postponing the Fall

How long will the Prime Minister Boyko Borissov dodge resigning after three months of protests and what comes next?

Bulgarian Development Bank’s New Leadership

A dubious loan stirred public uproar in April, leading to the quick dismissal of the bank’s management but the new team seems unlikely to fix the systemic problems at the state-owned lender