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Foreign companies in Bulgaria: a small but important boost to the economy
In 2022, they generated 15.5 billion euro added value and provided more than 400,000 jobs, Eurostat data show

BETL: Bulgaria’s newest financial pyramid
A British company promises fabulous profits by renting out batteries to charge phones. More than 12 thousand Bulgarians have already invested in the scheme

Team-GPT: Sofia to Silicon Valley in less than a year
The Bulgarian startup just raised 4.5 million dollars from American and British investors and is currently valued at 17.5 million dollars

Drinking water in reservoirs is at critically low levels. Are there solutions?
Nine of our drinking water supply dams are at their lowest levels in decades

Fitness fever: Next Level acquires Flais for 15 million euro
The buyer is part of the Multisport group and one of the largest fitness club owners in Bulgaria

Putting out fire after fire, or why Bulgaria has a hard time dealing with natural disasters
The country needs an aerial system for firefighting, but it has failed to buy even a single helicopter in the past three decades

The week: The elusive recipe for anti-corruption
Anti-corruption is difficult everywhere, 79 regulatory seats for the taking (if we discount the Patriarch’s and the PM’s)

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: 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

Louis Vuitton bags, millions of euro and no sign of corruption: the Bozhkov lottery story
The full text of the decree terminating the case for extortion of the mogul by Boyko Borissov and Vladislav Goranov gives a detailed chronology of the affair, but won’t reach court

Winter is coming: Bulgaria levies 10 euro per MWh tax on Russian gas transport and transit in Europe
Bulgaria adopts tariff on Russian gas that might see the price of Russian gas supplies soaring throughout Europe

Telco war enters new phase, as anti-trust body clears acquisitions by Vivacom
A1 and Yettel have alerted the European regulators about "excessive concentration" of market share and power in the hands of their competitor