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The week: Why Nations Fail in football and elections
One night in Belfast, What is wrong with the Air Force, Varna ex-mayor is sinking

Bulgaria's 2024 Budget: Focus on Infrastructure and Defense Investments
Finance ministry targets 3.2% GDP growth, sees inflation at 4.8%

The new companies within the top 100 of the largest Bulgarian businesses
Few unknown names and a sudden spurt of energy companies made the list

Chaira Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant: the long story behind an accident
The plant is the largest pumped storage facility in the region

Houston, we have a (coalition and inflation) problem - but also a Resilience plan, at last
Ceaseless troubles for the ruling majority; more, yet pricier F-16s on the way & downgraded GDP forecast

Three tunnels under the Balkan range: where and when
Road tunnels are to be built under the Shipka pass in central Bulgaria, Petrohan pass in the west, and close to the Black Sea coast in the east, regional development minister Grozdan Karadzhov announced

That's a "No" Skopje, the storm of the vaccinated anti-vaxxers and lights are off at the end of the tunnel
Radev keeps the reigns of N. Macedonia policy, the rise of the (jabbed) anti-vaxers and bye-bye to Sotir Tsatsarov

The week: A smaller Bulgaria, the Macedonian hostages, and an MMA real estate tycoon
K Insights: Is small necessarily bad, how many tunnels can you dig for 12 bln. levs and what do e-buses and corruption have in common

Why we love the EU and pretend not to like Moscow; the two most endangered sectors in Bulgaria
K Insights 26/03: A lot of love for Brussels, a fraught relationship with Moscow and a snub from Beijing

Elections looming large, prosecutors denied and how Bulgaria remains at the end of the GDP tail in the EU
K Insights 5/03: Controversial changes to the media law were postponed, Eurohold wants to raise 100 mln euro on the stock exchange

Forgotten scandals
An update to the list of transgressions of the powerful that remained buried in the news of protests and pandemics.

What’s in it for Bulgaria in the EU’s Green Deal?
Bulgaria’s government is underwhelmed by the European Commission’s attempts to further increase EU climate change mitigation goals

Bulgarian PM’s pride
Boyko Borissov often boasts of the infrastructure improvements made during his tenure but the process is uneven and mired in inconsistencies and bad planning
