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The Week: Has the "Peevski spell" been broken, Business climate turns sour, Sofia bans dirty cars
K Insights Newsletter 01/11
Rising Wages, Lagging Productivity: The End of Bulgaria’s Cheap Labor Advantage
Income growth in Bulgaria outpaces labor productivity by far, signaling the end of the low-cost labor model
Elections #7: The only campaign is the parallel state one
Parties are engaged in lackluster, almost absent electioneering, while the only real confrontation is between the two MRFs
The week: Time to escape the German economic embrace
The German curse of the industry, Peevski wins, BNB tries to curb house lending
10 Years After the Collapse of CCB: Where Are the Key Figures Now?
A decade after the closure of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), there are still no convictions, and the mega-trial for draining its accounts is going nowhere
Elections 2024: GERB wins convincingly, but forming a majority might prove elusive
Extremely low turnout and the unexpected rise of a new radical party on TikTok expose the deepening representation crisis
The week: GERB makes a comeback
The return of Borissov, Saudis eye a telecom & TV channel and the Missing Cryptoqueen’s drug lord
Fast and furious: GERB and MRF reinstate the status quo at full speed
The fortnight-old Glavchev cabinet is no longer trying to hide its allegiances
Who is who in the Glavchev cabinet and what comes next
The caretaker gov’t is dominated by GERB and MRF cadres, which are bound to restore the status quo
How the Half-Baked Constitutional Changes Brought Back GERB
And Other Problems with the Upcoming Early Vote
The week: No country for the old
The young have made it through, The rotation is now a centrifuge, Bulgarian football goes for old
The week: What a Big Mac can tell us about the future of Sofia
Sofia gets really expensive, Peevski gets a post, and Real Estate keeps booming
The Notary vs. the Euro: the Judicial Pandora’s box
The assassination of influence peddler Martin Bozhanov exposed the rotten core of the Bulgarian prosecution and might cause a civil war within it
The week: A second private border?
A private Schengen, Elections loom again, How hard is it to buy trains
The rotation is coming: What’s next for the (non)coalition?
Despite shakeups, it appears that "the assemblage" of GERB and WCC-DB, backed by MRF, will soldier on after 6 March - with some slight recalibrations