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State bets on 2.8% economic growth and lower wage increases in 2025
Public spending will underpin higher growth rates, private consumption will slow down

Bulgaria’s 2025 Budget: We Have a Problem
Instead of voting for more populism-driven spending, parliament has to consider unpopular measures to tighten state finances

Bulgaria’s 2025 Budget Faces Challenges with a Significant Expenditure Overrun
Budget revenues are growing at a much slower pace than expenditures, while EU funds remain elusive for now

The week: Bulgarian politics in meltdown, corruption scandals revived and budget troubles
The unenviable task of trying to explain all this

Dangerous games with state money
The caretaker cabinet unveiled shocking expectations for high deficit and debt bills in the 2023 budget

Budget 2023: red lights everywhere
The next government will have several options: raising taxes, increasing the deficit and debt, or reforming spending

The week: Call them by their names, planes to Skopje and Bangkok, and the Recovery plan is back
F-16 are not on the horizon, while trains are

Bulgaria’s budget 2022: too generous and risky
The finance ministry proposed a draft budget for 2022 with a deficit equivalent to 4.1% of planned GDP and significant debt growth

The week: It's all going well if you are a bank, but not if you're a mayor, and a small village has a big waste problem
The honeymoon ends fast for the new government, economic optimism rises

Seven reasons why Bulgaria’s economic growth slowed down
The statistics office reported a surprisingly low 0.4% GDP growth rate in the third quarter of 2021