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Ruling majority passes a record budget for 2025 with Peevski’s backing
VAT registration threshold drops to 100,000 levs. The government plans to draw 18.9 billion levs of debt this year

Lukoil: outbidding Bulgarian business is just starting
More than a dozen contestants, including KazMunayGas, Socar and MOLD, still vie for the future of the Russian group's assets in the country

The Week: Has the "Peevski spell" been broken, Business climate turns sour, Sofia bans dirty cars
K Insights Newsletter 01/11

Russia’s floating petrol stations near the Bulgarian coast
Moscow’s "ghost fleet" of tankers undercuts marine fuel prices just off Bulgarian territorial waters and might be circumventing EU sanctions

Diesel cars remain top choice in Bulgaria in 2023
Passenger vehicles increased by almost 4% last year to 3 million units

The week: Gooood morning Vietnam!
Back in Vietnam, We are not harassing Austria, Why is Sofia lonely

The biggest fuel companies: Business thrives on Ukraine war, price hikes
Revenues of the top 30 companies in the K100 sector ranking rose from BGN 17.7 billion in 2021 to BGN 32.4 billion last year.

The week: To leave or not to leave, that’s Lukoil’s question
Russian oil derogation shenanigans, Bulgarian PISA tower crumbles, good times for bankers and farmers

The week: A 7.5 tremor in the non-coalition
Tremors in the coalition, Budget is in, Mihailov is out and Zakharova is pissed

The end of fuel exports to Ukraine
The Ukrainian authorities have blacklisted locations such as Burgas, Varna, Plovdiv and Byala. Since early November, the Insa Oil base in Belozem has also been included in the document

The week: Borissov is back, The Yellow brick road of sorrow and the electoral queen from Varna
K Insights newsletter 07/04

Biodiesel maker Astra Bioplant tops fuel sector’s ranking
Long-time leader Lukoil Neftochim Burgas drops to fourth position

Will Lukoil continue dominating Bulgaria’s petrol market despite sanctions?
The war in Ukraine and the EU embargo on Russian oil won’t impact the giant’s hegemony

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: water, migration, elections and a new King of Britain
K Insights 9/9: Bursting riverbeds, election apathy, and the Rolex priest warns of materialism

KInsights' Energy Report: Dashboard
Four graphs that show the long-term trends in the Bulgarian energy sector