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

A1 Bulgaria in green power deal with Renalfa

The telco has signed a 10-year electricity supply contract at a fixed price as part of its ESG strategy

Bulgaria faces first obstacles in absorbing EU Recovery funds

The debacle over the implementation of the TETRA communication equipment project threatens the allocation of 2.6 billion euro worth of EU money for Sofia

The week: Borissov’s EU accomplices, Energy woes and 2.25 billion euro in state bonds

EPP’s selective vision of graft in Bulgaria, Deadly police corruption and some good business news

The day in 3 news: Energy Minister expects cheaper gas in November; Grain producers seek more subsidies; Radev pledges ongoing school heating

Belgian company buys Suite hotel in Sofia to make a hub for working nomads

The owner of Melexis Bulgaria, Duchatelet, and his trusted football manager Catherine Mer bought the Suite hotel, located in Sofia’s Studentski Grad district.

Sofia is becoming software development center for global automotive giants

Visteon, Bosch and Mercedes already have engineering units in Sofia, Volkswagen is exploring the market

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

Day in 3 news: Caretaker govt to keep social benefits intact; industrial output grows; construction sector shrinks further

Day in 3 news: Radev’s cabinet loses support; Bulgarians get quick but expensive care; BG taps Lukoil as EU embargo on Russian fuel nears

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

The Wolf, PIMK strike deal in Sofia’s Studentski Grad neighborhood

The Plovdiv-based transport and construction group has bought land with a construction permit for a residential building from Rumen Gaitanski’s Wolf company for 11.3 million BGN

The day in 3 news: GERB to win elections, Vazrazhdane gets closer to MRF’s result - poll; Budget surplus at 1.65 bln levs in August; Jan-July banks’ profit tops 1.2 bln levs

What’s cooking before the 2 October snap vote?

The new political season kicks off with smear campaigns, corruption allegations and president’s interference that would likely result in yet another fragmented parliament unable to support a government coalition

Budget 2023: red lights everywhere

The next government will have several options: raising taxes, increasing the deficit and debt, or reforming spending

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

Resolute Asset Management - global asset manager and advisor

The Director and Country Head for Bulgaria of the leading global asset management company talks to KInsights

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