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The week: An eagle has finally landed. Is it too late?
Defense modernization in slow motion, GDP crawls up towards EU average and a Discoverer+ supercomputer

Bulgaria’s festivals in 2025
Eating, drinking and a little jazz - where, what, and when to visit throughout the year

Is Bulgaria becoming a liability for the EU?
Corruption and the (mal)functioning of the judiciary are no longer national problems - they also concern Europe

The Week: Has the "Peevski spell" been broken, Business climate turns sour, Sofia bans dirty cars
K Insights Newsletter 01/11

The week: The Romanian way
The boom on the other side of the Danube, Where did 4 billion leva go, the biggest Renter in Sofia

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)

Rotation still on? Gabriel presents Radev with a fulfilled mandate, but WCC-DB remain silent
After 36 hours of uncertainty, GERB bids to wrest key ministries from WCC-DB

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 founder of the largest Bulgarian insurer has been shot in Sofia
Alexey Petrov - founder of Lev Ins, which insured the reconstruction of Camp Nou, was a visible remnant of the 90s and a key figure in business and politics

Build the damn roads. Build the damn railways. Do something, for Christ’s sake
Build the roads, search for gas in the sea, a Ukrainian hit-list and Lukoil is in for some trouble

The week: A coalition is (still) born, a mobster is killed, and a Booker is won
K Insights newsletter 26/05

GERB wins vote, but unlikely to reign in another fractured Parliament
Seven parties crossed the 4% threshold in another inconsequential election with a low turnout

The week: Borissov’s EU accomplices, Energy woes and 2.25 billion euro in state bonds
EPP’s selective vision of graft in Bulgaria, Deadly police corruption and some good business news

What’s cooking before the 2 October snap vote?
The new political season kicks off with smear campaigns, corruption allegations and president’s interference that would likely result in yet another fragmented parliament unable to support a government coalition

The last (Croatian) train to Schengen: Will Bulgaria catch it?
Two factors will decide whether Sofia will enter the common EU travel space any time soon - an upcoming technical assessment in September and the diplomatic push thereafter