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

The week: The Bleak sea 🌊, Who's nominating the Bulgarian EU commissioner 🇧🇬💼, The train deal falls through 🚂❌

K Insights 26/07

Ruse truck parking scheme: Taki’s shadow at the Bulgarian-Romanian border

The private truck parking facility was launched by the municipality of Ruse and is linked to the same entities controlling the Kapitan Andreevo crossing at Bulgaria's border with Turkey

The week: Is CEE turning into Latin America, The return of GERB is (almost) complete, Sofia's got trouble

K Insights newsletter: 17/05

The week: What a pyrolysis installation in Plovdiv teaches us about trust and business

Corruption is bad for business, Tony Blair is here to help and NATO steps in for the infrastructure

The day in 3 news: Coalition tensions mount over Lukoil, Dogan’s Varna plant sued for 35 million levs, Minister says 30% of roads need repair

The week: Prigozhin and the fake revival, the new man for Sofia, how to lose a billion

The day in 3 news: Parliament’s work can finally begin; Inflation nudges down; EC sues Bulgaria over separate violations

Biodiesel maker Astra Bioplant tops fuel sector’s ranking

Long-time leader Lukoil Neftochim Burgas drops to fourth position

The day in 3 news: Petkov’s former Energy Minister faces gas probe; More Bulgarians want to migrate; BMW sells more EV’s

The day in 3 news: Radev writes to Erdogan after Turkish disaster; Moody’s says Bulgaria unlikely to enter Eurozone in 2024; Minimum wage raised

The week: 3 examples to guide you in 2023, we are still on track for the eurozone, new car sales pick-up

The day in 3 news: 1 billion levs from EU; Journalist fined for comments on judge; Toll prices pegged

The Day in 3 News: Bulgaria starts buying American nuclear fuel, Road vignettes get cheaper, Vera Su sold

The week: To Qatar and back, brain surgeon fails to win minds, Schneider Electric is Factory of the Year

K Insights weekly overview

Bulgarians have lost 860,000 years of collective lifespan due to Covid

The country recorded the highest number of excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic, according to an expert report

The week: Fear not the political feuds, even when they tell you to on the TV

The optimist theory for the economy, Parliament is stuck, President is happy, and the Dutch don’t like us

The week: "Year Zero" for anti-corruption, new cabinet or new elections, the quick end of the Gemcorp memorandum

Captured state fights back, gas storage slowly fills up and a skyscraper that is not

Is Bulgaria the weak link in Europe’s fight against Russian disinformation?

Pro-Kremlin propaganda has been flooding the country for years, fracturing the social fabric and offering a fruitful environment for the spread of disinformation

Strange protests and even stranger anti-inflation measures, plus the new owner of the Maritza Iztok - 3 coal power plant

Protest for the sake of protesting, Italian soldiers are welcomed and a new owner for the second largest TPP in Bulgaria