I met Vlado ten years ago in the bar on the corner of Rakovska and Vasil Levski. He came on a motorbike and quickly asked me about pressing economic and political issues – I was in a sort of interview. Karolev was running for mayor and was looking for a campaign assistant, I was recommended to him as his …

The imposition of green certificates requiring vaccination for admission to certain public places has caused a severe division in Bulgarian society. For better or worse, the entire conversation “for” or “against” restrictive measures against the unvaccinated revolves precisely around the question in the title, which unfortunately is not put into a sufficiently detailed context by …

October 1 marked exactly one year since Bulgaria officially joined the EU Banking Union. The accession was accompanied by great fanfare from public experts, politicians, and of course the government of Boyko Borissov himself, who in April 2020 announced Bulgaria’s accession to the ERM-II exchange rate mechanism and the Banking Union …