The day in 3 news: Second mandate passed to WCC-DB amid turmoil; Defence costs could pass 1 billion; Radev attacks Vassilev over recording

The week: A coalition is (still) born, a mobster is killed, and a Booker is won

K Insights newsletter 26/05

Last-minute rotation: GERB and WCC-DB agree on a government

It will be formed with the second mandate of Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov and will have Mariya Gabriel as his deputy. They will then swap positions after nine months.

The day in 3 news: Pathway to prosecute Geshev approved; No cabinet, no budget is Borissov’s new ultimatum; Unemployment falls below 5% in Q1

The week: The captured state unravels, Mariya Gabriel gets a bad deal, while arms producers had a very good year

The country didn’t break. It was already broken

The day in 3 news: Skopje-Sofia row explodes; Bulgaria again misses EU deadlines; Geshev’s GERB ‘friend’ revealed

The day in 3 news: WCC-DB proposes constitutional reform; Military factories earn less; Arena Burgas to open after 8-year project

Geshev throws down gauntlet to Borissov after resignation call

PM-nominee Mariya Gabriel’s proposal to oust the Prosecutor General plunges the institution into civil war

The week: A prosecutor-general heads out, an EUcommissioner comes in, and an American president drops by

The day in 3 news: Maria Gabriel set to be GERB’s PM-designate; Bulgaria in Eurozone by 2025; Tailor opens new BGN 1.4m site

How Romania overtook Bulgaria

The biggest difference between the two countries is the degree of success in their fight against corruption

The day in 3 news: Geshev’s "terror attack" account is challenged; New tax proposal riles business; Petkov says GERB has few choices

The week: A genuinely bold idea, cross-party ‘friendship’ fizzles out, a ‘superhero’ targeted by evildoers

Let’s dream big

The day in 3 news: Eurozone deadline is 2025; Nationalists seek moratorium on solar projects; Bulgaria sells record number of weapons

The board is set, the pieces are moving: will there be a cabinet?

Borissov seems to be dictating the pace of the negotiations, WCC is trying to outmaneuver him, but might end up playing into his hands

The day in 3 news: Geshev survives bomb attack; Borissov dislikes cabinet proposed by WCC-DB; Gas price falls

The week: Are parties going to agree on anything, the Azeri gas gambit and BNB cools down crediting

Coalition with GERB? Don’t look at what he says, look at what they do

The day in 3 news: GERB, WCC-DB agree on Budget; Cheap electricity in April; NOTE buys ATM Electronics

"Unconventional proposal." Are GERB and WCC-DB working towards a gov’t?

In a sign of goodwill, the leaders of the two factions met for the first time on Tuesday, but a breakthrough remains far off

The day in 3 news: Gov’t negotiations begin; Bulgarian bank launders Russian money, says Dobrev; New VC firm starts up