Bulgaria Issues Record 4.35 Billion Euro of External Debt

The three tranches with different maturities attracted massive investor interest exceeding 17 billion euro

The week: The Bleak sea 🌊, Who's nominating the Bulgarian EU commissioner 🇧🇬💼, The train deal falls through 🚂❌

K Insights 26/07

The day in 3 news: Weakened interest in BG bonds; Former PM Stanishev hints at BSP comeback; Electricity price hits 18-month high

The day in 3 news: NRA seizes Ivelin Mihaylov’s properties; GERB negotiates with There is Such a People, Revolut users can make bond investments

The week: The Accountant and Srebrenica

Glavchev The Sudden Diplomat, Long work hours and a belated Tsar’s burial

The day in 3 news: 11% increase in minimum pensions; Paysera will seek 2 million levs on BEAM; Securities auction averages yield of 3.21%

The week: Is CEE turning into Latin America, The return of GERB is (almost) complete, Sofia's got trouble

K Insights newsletter: 17/05

The day in 3 news: Pensions get pre-election boost; 250 million levs net profit for BG TSO; Bonds reap 200 million levs in new issue

The week: How hard is it to buy trains?

The train won't be coming, The free electricity market neither, And the new Constitution is a mess

The week: Fly, don't float - Bulgaria enters Schengen

Schengen entry is upon us, Who wants to be a Prime Minister, A very rich church

The day in 3 news: Terziev wins narrowly in Sofia for WCC-DB, GERB loses major cities; Bulgaria seeks 2 billion euros to fund the deficit

Budget plan 2023: More VAT revenue, less capital spending to contain budget deficit at 3%

Finance Minister Assen Vassilev presented the framework of his plan for the state finances, which should be ready at the beginning of July

The week: Some good vibes for Christmas; Lukoil suddenly is very cooperative; The curious case of Bulsatcom

Last K Insights newsletter for 2022

The week: Catching-up with the neighbors and looking for a lost highway

The decisive month for Bulgaria, how we lost tens of millions on a highway, and whom did Stoichkov meet?

The risks in front of Bulgaria’s 2023 budget

With or without a regular government in place, the new parliament can vote on Budget 2023 but probably it will not have the will to cut spending

Bulgaria in crisis: 5 risks caused by the political chaos

The post-election deadlock might consign the country to EU backwater status

The week: Numbers and why we should love them, elections and census results are out and Schengen maybe?

K insights 07/10: And I guess that’s why they call it the (post-election) blues

The day in 3 news: Government bonds fall; GERB taps WCC and Democratic Bulgaria; Radev opposes Ukraine’s entry into NATO

The week: From Ruse to Sofia, or why elections might not be all that important

Another election looms, Lukoil and Nexo lurch to fresh crisis and Ruse has some things going for it

The week: Elections 2022: Pretend nothing’s happening; FDI down, caretaker Gov’t goes LNG

Parties lying low on big issues before vote, Energy Minister shifts stance on LNG and why do people from the "Yellow Cobblestones" cry?