The year: 2025 is here with open borders, electricity cuts, gas shortages, and a hope for peace

K Insights: 03/01/25

Where did Velichie come from and where are they headed?

The new protest party rode on the wave of social media and sounds even more extreme than Vazrazhdane - can it be tamed?

Sofia’s poisonous traffic goes under the institutional radar

There is hidden pollution with dangerous nitrogen dioxide in Sofia and the state is underestimating the problem, the environmental organization For the Earth says

The week: What a pyrolysis installation in Plovdiv teaches us about trust and business

Corruption is bad for business, Tony Blair is here to help and NATO steps in for the infrastructure

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 week: A tragedy worth uniting for, Plovdiv mayor announces independence and the US ambassador leaves

The better angels of our nature

The day in 3 news: EU finally passes first installment of funds; Russian hackers attack intelligence services; NPP again operates at full power

Pro-Kremlin hackers fire warning shots at Bulgarian institutions

A DDoS attack hit the websites of various state institutions over the weekend - and more could be on the way

E-government: Time for an update

The new government plans radical digitalization of Bulgarian bureaucracy in its first year

The Change (does not) Continue for Sofia-Skopje relations

A new cabinet is unlikely to overturn Bulgaria’s position on N. Macedonia’s EU accession

Why do Bulgarians refuse to get the Covid vaccine?

Poor communication and broken trust in institutions left much of the public prone to disinformation and unjustified fears about the effects of jabs

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

Tourism this season: between freedom and fear

Bulgaria has to figure out how to attract people again

The day in 3 news: Mass vaccinations to start immediately; EU condemns Bulgaria’s failure to investigate racism; elevator factory from the "Eight Dwarfs" investigation looted

The day in 3 news: Defense Ministry to appoint 730-million contract to state-owned company, 39 million euro to support medium-sized business, Bulgarian GDP falls 3,8% in last quarter of 2020

Six lessons from COVID 19

Bulgaria weathered the first part of the pandemic unexpectedly well but then started failing

Raiding Dunarit

A war for the remnants of Corporate Commercial Bank’s heritage looms large behind a drive to nationalize Bulgaria’s fourth largest armaments company