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Where are the Ukrainian refugees heading to?
Bulgaria faces the uphill task of having to find accommodation for 60,000 refugees currently in seaside hotels whose owners want to kick off their summer holiday season. Integrating them in society and in the labor market are now pressing priorities

The week: Sofia emerges on Hi-Tech map, road cartels still hold sway and Bulgarians don’t like Putin anymore
K Insights 21/4: The two roads ahead for Bulgaria and strike season is upon us

Bulgaria gets its first tech institute - with 200 million BGN from the state, Google, Amazon and SiteGround
The new Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) launches this fall with leading researchers and professors from across the globe

Capital’s 2022 Business meets Gov’t conference: Highlights
Prime Minister Kiril Petkov slams Bulgaria’s ill-preparedness for war or emergencies during address to Capital Weekly and business sector guests

Top 10 of Plovdiv’s largest outsourcing companies
The tech business in the city keeps growing and attracting new investors

SiteGround: Creating Bulgaria’s biggest IT company
The founder Ivo Tsenov and the CEO Tenko Nikolov talk about their business, why the team matters and why they opted to stay in Bulgaria

Bulgaria doesn’t have an Amazon, Google or Microsoft. Does the country want them?
Why the tech giants don’t see Bulgaria as an option for investing

The year in politics - and what to expect in 2022
Bulgaria underwent its most turbulent year in the new century - and more upheavals seem sure to come next year

Bulgaria’s most profitable companies in 2020: a very good year for some
The country’s largest companies reached record-breaking profit margins in the pandemic year

Christo in Paris: L’Art de Triomphe
"L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped", the posthumous work of the Bulgarian-born contemporary artist, is connected in more than one way to his country of origin

The biggest companies in sofware and fintech: Changing and growing
The year of the coronavirus has changed the fundamentals of Capital’s annual ranking in the IT sector, but three in four companies are still growing

The biggest companies in 2020: New model, new champion
Bulgaria’s biggest companies were only mildly hit by the coronavirus. Total revenue of the top 100 firms decreased by just 7% in 2020.

The Black Wednesday: Integrated Public Transport "Through The Looking Glass"
A 57-million euro project for better urban transport infrastructure that was due for completion in 2016, but still isn’t fully operational to this day

Summer is here: the most inviting hangouts, in and out of Sofia
Several recommendations for recently opened or renovated fine dine and casual places in the capital, countrywide and on the seaside

The deals of 2020: Few and far between
The pandemic practically froze the M&A market. Buyers are still mostly local faces

Bulgaria’s new factories
Investment projects worth less than 430 mln levs were announced in 2020 - a third of the amount in 2019

The Hospitable Sporting Nation
Still living off its faded sports glory, Bulgaria now dreams of hosting European and World Cup football championships, instead of investing in the development of sports