The week: The hidden economy, The man who built Bulgaria, Don't call them by their name, Save the Tomatoes

Thousand shades of gray

The day in 3 news: Probe of CO2 emissions scheme in Kovachki TPPs; Business confidence revives; Vitosha Venture Partners bankrolls 5

The day in 3 news: Romania earthquake felt all over Bulgaria; Consumption main factor in growth; Average salary reaches BGN 1900

The week: The two types of entrepreneurs, How Nexo affected politics, Bulgaria cashes in on the markets

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Bulgaria: a step closer to the euro’s door

The most dynamic, the most profitable and the companies with the most employees in Bulgaria

Profitability of the largest companies in Bulgaria continues to improve in 2021, while revenues of the fastest-growing large firms jump to an unprecedented 144%

The day in 3 news: More foreigners attend Bulgarian universities; 6% of GDP comes from outsourcing; Cosmetics producer raises 285 000 euros

The top ten owners of office buildings in Sofia

They own 600 thousand square meters of offices in Sofia or half of the total available 1.24 million square meters of class A areas in the capital.

The day in 3 news: Exports forecast to slow; Salaries grew in summer by nearly 15%; Pet market grows rapidly

A step away from Russia’s energy grip, Bulgaria-Greece gas interconnector finally launches

On the 1 October the long-awaited gas connection started functioning, meaning that Bulgaria has physical access to alternative gas supplies for the first time

Christophe Leclercq: Medias are an army of dwarfs, facing a world duopoly: Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google)

The founder of the EURACTIV Media Network & Chair of Europe’s MediaLab spoke with Capital on the new European Media Freedom Act

Energy minister Rossen Hristov: There is a political decision in Moscow preventing Gazprom to work with us

The Donev cabinet’s appeasement of Gazprom may cost Bulgaria dearly

The potential restart of payments - in rubles - to the Russian gas giant, advocated by President Radev’s caretaker cabinet could incur 1.8 billion euro in damages for Sofia

Jens Rasmussen: We are starting a project for 250 mW of solar power for 150 million euros near Yambol

Eurowind Energy plans a total of 1 GW of new capacity in Bulgaria, the CEO of the Danish company told Capital

A new model: a company builds apartments for lease

AG Capital plans to build 1,000 apartments for this purpose. Then the company will sell them to a fund in a package

Bulgaria’s unfinished Belene NPP: to be or not to be

In the next couple of decades, the country does not need a new nuclear capacity; by then it should decide on its nuclear energy’s future

The Bulgarian startup ecosystem is losing momentum

The country has built a good reputation on account of its digital infrastructure, low costs and technical talent, but it’s still being overtaken

Day in 3 news: Petkov announces further delay of Bulgaria-Greece gas link’s launch, MPs allow construction contracts to be indexed to inflation, Producer prices rise 41% in June

What stands behind the arcane $1 billion investment memorandum with Gemcorp and IP3 funds?

Kapital Insights sheds light on the main points of the controversial memorandum signed by the two investment funds and the government

The week: The best place to start fighting the corruption, Don’t count a coalition before it’s hatched, Crypto collapse

A fatal crash exposes depth of state capture, No gov’t + crypto layoffs and M&As