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The week: An eagle has finally landed. Is it too late?
Defense modernization in slow motion, GDP crawls up towards EU average and a Discoverer+ supercomputer

A year after Broadcom’s acquisition, VMware Bulgaria has melted in half
More than a thousand of the company’s employees in Bulgaria have been made redundant following the purchase at the end of 2023.

The Zhelyazkov cabinet program: familiar intentions but nothing reformist
Among the novelties is that the government now aims to increase military spending to 2.5% of GDP

Data and people, or how Solvay Sodi is going digital
The ash soda plant in Devnya, winner of the Factory of the Year contest, is transforming the way it works to remain a market leader

The week: A map of industrial brilliance
Factory of the Year is Solvay, Bulgaria loses some European money, How to destroy a 2000-year-old Basilica

30 years of BNP Paribas in Bulgaria: A Journey of Growth and Innovation*
From key investments to digital transformation, BNP Paribas marks three decades of success in Bulgaria.

When Plovdiv was the capital
A decade ago, the city won the 2019 European Capital of Culture title. This triggered the peak of its development

A Wolf Battue
The Prosecutor's Office and the Anti-Corruption Commission go after Rumen "the Wolf" Gaitansky, Stoyan Mavrodiev - and potentially, Ahmed Dogan himself

Diána Ürge-Vorsatz: Balkan and Mediterranean regions will be the most affected from climate change
Good news about the climate are very rare, even more in certain regions.

PM Glavchev’s Caretaker Cabinet Acts to Preserve Coal Power Plants Until 2038
Bulgaria is moving towards renegotiation of its Recovery and Resilience Plan, putting in jeopardy EU payments.

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

640 million levs to transform Stara Zagora, Kyustendil and Pernik
The territorial plans are designed to create new jobs and economic dynamics in exchange for phasing out coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions

Bulgaria set to relinquish 4.4 billion euros under the Recovery Plan
Parliament sabotages the second payment and puts the whole plan at risk by blocking the adoption of four laws and postponing the abolition of regulated electricity prices

Bulgaria has utilized only 4% of European funds since 2021
For the first time since joining the EU, Bulgaria has got along with almost no European funding for several years

Vitosha Venture Partners commits 1.5 million euros across 5 companies
The VC firm will focus on portfolio development and prepare for the launch of a new fund

Austrian paper trader intends to buy a Plovdiv-based company for advertising materials
Europapier’s Bulgarian subsidiary is awaiting anti-trust approval to acquire Micro Asu

Belgium’s ABEE proposes to invest 1.1 billion euro in gigafactory in Bulgaria
The project includes a Li-ion battery plant in Stara Zagora, a recycling facility in Burgas and an R&D center in Plovdiv

The biggest fuel companies: Business thrives on Ukraine war, price hikes
Revenues of the top 30 companies in the K100 sector ranking rose from BGN 17.7 billion in 2021 to BGN 32.4 billion last year.