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

The day in 3 news: 2025 Draft Budget: A risky path forward; Threat to halt gas transit for Gazprom over debt; Proposed VAT changes for property sales

Day in 3 News: Parliament breaks deadlock, elects Natalia Kiselova as speaker; State bets on 2.8% growth, lower wage increase in 2025; 10% planned rise in social security contribution

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

Rising Wages, Lagging Productivity: The End of Bulgaria’s Cheap Labor Advantage

Income growth in Bulgaria outpaces labor productivity by far, signaling the end of the low-cost labor model

The week: Season 8 of Bulgaria ain’t got talent, Solar wins the day, Factory of the Year competition is opened

Putting out fire after fire, or why Bulgaria has a hard time dealing with natural disasters

The country needs an aerial system for firefighting, but it has failed to buy even a single helicopter in the past three decades

AI can help quality journalism be an even stronger growth business

Financial Times CEO on why quality journalism is here to stay in the age of AI and the key role of the FT Sofia product and development team in the company’s growth strategy

The day in 3 news: Recovery Plan laws next week; Bulgaria only uses 4.6% of EU Funds; 18% of Bulgarian students fail financial literacy

The day in 3 news: GERB leads by 8.4% in election poll; Defense Ministry pushes for more spending; EC to support local euro campaign

The week: The trick with the migrant scare

Don’t let the news fool you, How flat should a tax be, and a Bishop dreams of heading the Church

The week: The year ends on a high with a Budget and a Constitution, A ship company in trouble, and Russia gets slapped twice

K Insights Newsletter 22/12

The week: A very sudden twist

Slapping Russia in the face, Borissov is not corrupt, Open-air teaching gets a boost

The week: Bulgarian politics in meltdown, corruption scandals revived and budget troubles

The unenviable task of trying to explain all this

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: State readies for fresh poll; Household spending sees sharp rise; BG products sold by Lidl top BGN 100 million

The day in 3 news: Pension and minimum wage unchanged; WCC and DB will try to form minority gov’t; Elon Musk to visit Bulgaria

Dangerous games with state money

The caretaker cabinet unveiled shocking expectations for high deficit and debt bills in the 2023 budget

The week: The land of the wanna-bes, illegal migration makes a bloody comeback, an ex-mayor goes to prison and a singer squats

Dreams and realities, fences and guns, boxers and singers

Bulgaria in crisis: 5 risks caused by the political chaos

The post-election deadlock might consign the country to EU backwater status