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Bulgaria's Euro Ambitions: Tackling Inflation for Eurozone Entry
Bulgaria's government is targeting January 1, 2025, as the date for adopting the euro. A potential stumbling block could be the price stability criterion

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

Bulgarian housing prices soar as Eurozone ones fall for the first time in years
Records double-digit growth of prices fueled by a housing loan boom meets plummeting demand

Business meets government for the 17th time: what’s next for Bulgaria in 2024
Joining the Eurozone by the end of 2025 is "quite realistic," while the rotation cabinet might last more than 18 months, PM Nikolay Denkov told the conference organized by Capital

Multi-speed EU: What could it mean for Bulgaria?
Joining the Eurozone and Schengen becomes even more important for the country to benefit from expected EU reforms

Bulgaria posts 780 mln levs budget gap at end-September
Lower imports dent VAT revenues, extra spending is allocated to agriculture

The week: Bulgaria's coal reckoning - this is not the 80's
Why Stara Zagora is no Yorkshire, what the hell is happening on the housing market and a Bright Mind

Largest employers: IT and arms industry booming despite workforce shortage
With a staff of more than 230,000 in total, the 100 biggest companies employ one in ten workers in Bulgaria

100 days of the Denkov-Gabriel gov’t: what was (not) done?
Beyond its pro-Ukrainian tilt, the cabinet has so far only been noted for its appointment scandals, its dependency on MRF and the absence of promised key reforms

Why investment activity in Bulgaria is so slow
Low investment rates limit the country’s long-term potential for economic growth

Bulgarian economy losing steam
GDP growth stands at 1.8% y/y in the second quarter, with consumption remaining the primary driver

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

To Euro or not to Euro: What is happening with the adoption of the common EU currency in Bulgaria
All you need to know - from Vazrazhdane’s referendum to Assen Vassilev’s parallel currency idea

Bulgaria's housing prices soar ten times faster than the EU average
Low-interest mortgage loans and inflation are the main drivers