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Мандат за една наистина Прогресивна България 1. На 19 април 2026 г. станахме свидетели на истински исторически момент за България. Новосъздадената партия „Прогресивна България“, водена от бившия президент Румен Радев, постигна безапелационна победа в изборите, с 44.6% от вота, което ѝ гарантира нещо изключително рядко в историята на съвременната българска …

Assen Vassilev will try to drain the coffers of the Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) in order to patch up the budget and reduce the deficit to 3% of GDP. This is clear from a letter sent by him to the new Energy Minister, the authenticity of which has already been confirmed by several media outlets. And several media outlets with …

At the last minute, the parliament extended the program for compensation of the industry with the price of electricity. Although clumsily played by the Petkov government and with contradictory ideological and economic justification, the program was somewhat inevitable, due to the massive compensations distributed in Western Europe (Spain and France have ceilings below 50 euros), and …

The historical realignment[1] in the political philosophies of parties across the Atlantic and in Europe is in full swing – hawkish socialists against Russia, pacifist and isolationist conservatives, right-wing protectionists and left-wing defenders of free trade and international agreements, modern left-liberals against local heavy industry and covering up blue-collar unionists and modern right-wingers in …

The Bulgarian Energy Exchange closed at a day-ahead baseload price of BGN 285.10 per MWh. The peak energy price has again come close to the shock values of BGN 330 per MWh from a few days ago. For comparison, the price on Western exchanges is significantly lower – 99 euros in France and 100 …

The national plan under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility is a major topic of discussion in both the new Bulgarian parliament and the excited post-election public sphere. The facility is just one part of the €750 billion Next Generation EU package (nearly half in the form of loans) born out of the pandemic, …

|Click for full report| Discussions around the National Recovery and Resilience Plan have been a major part of the heated political debate over the past week. They will continue to be important in the coming months. Unfortunately, they focus on the issue of the date of submission of the documentation to the European Commission, without …

Author: Natali Hristova Why are we even bothering with the Belene NPP when we can neither finance it nor need the electricity? Moreover, it is doubtful to what extent the EU will allow it, especially considering the use of old Russian technology in a seismic region and with a lack of diversification in the particularly important sector of …

Author: Vladislav Panev Bulgarian energy is the sector with the least real market and the only way to explain the processes in it is with a strong influence of the backstage. Varna TPP, for example, was an absolutely unnecessary asset while it was owned by CEZ. After the Czechs sold it to the former minister Danail Papazov (later he went …

Dear readers, from EKIP we are officially restarting our column "Monthly Macroeconomic Monitor"! The new format of the column will be a series of infographics that will be published each month after the publication of the relevant data from the NSI. Each infographic will focus on a different sector or a key indicator for the Bulgarian economy. The first months …