The day in 3 news: Kozloduy NPP launches EPC tender; Electricity, IT top share of economy in 2022; NEXO takes Bulgaria to court

The week: Gooood morning Vietnam!

Back in Vietnam, We are not harassing Austria, Why is Sofia lonely

The day in 3 news: MRF supports FDI bill; Bulgaria loses solar arbitrage; Swipe.bg wins new backing

The week: The mystery of the Bulgarian housing market

The (very) strange Bulgarian housing market, a not so strange election and a bag of coke

Winter is coming: Bulgaria levies 10 euro per MWh tax on Russian gas transport and transit in Europe

Bulgaria adopts tariff on Russian gas that might see the price of Russian gas supplies soaring throughout Europe

The week: Should you trust the Bulgarian public, Zelensky wins a face-off with Radev, and gets some nuclear reactors

Bulgaria to sell Belene NPP equipment to Ukraine

Ukraine can use it in the Khmelnitskyi NPP or as a backup for various other plants

Prosecution launches an attack against a political party because of Gazprom deliveries

The indictments of ex-Energy Minister Alexander Nikolov and two of his associates for mismanagement of the gas crisis of April 2022 lie on shaky grounds

Energy minister Rossen Hristov: There is a political decision in Moscow preventing Gazprom to work with us

The Donev cabinet’s appeasement of Gazprom may cost Bulgaria dearly

The potential restart of payments - in rubles - to the Russian gas giant, advocated by President Radev’s caretaker cabinet could incur 1.8 billion euro in damages for Sofia

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

Day in 3 news: TSP pitches referendum on presidential republic; GERB backs talks with Gazprom: Caretaker gov’t could stay for a while, says Alfa Research

Day in 3 news: Police officers killed after migrant bus crash; Bulgaria could pay 1.8 bn euros to Gazprom; Former TSP MPs officially join WCC ticket

Will the caretaker gov’t start a U-turn on Russia?

On its second day in office, the new Bulgarian cabinet announced a course towards "containment of the chaos and destruction" in the energy sector. This might well translate as a pivot to Moscow

The day in 3 news: Protest parties on brink of majority, Kovesi goes after EU environmental scheme, Billion euro CEZ arbitration against Sofia launched

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

The Top 30 in the energy sector: Lingering defects

The biggest companies in the sector increased their revenue by over 1 billion levs in 2018

Transport: EU road transport market gets tougher to operate

Western Europe’s protectionist measures are a major issue for long-haul cargo carriers

Big Energy Dreams Revived

PM Borissov’s government resurrects two scrapped Russian-backed projects without clear idea about costs