In contemporary Bulgarian politics, success has long ceased to be measured by built highways, completed reforms, or genuinely defended national interests in Brussels. Instead, it is manufactured on an industrial scale by PR experts whose primary task is to transform a routine political wish into a booming media headline. A classic example of this mechanism...
An exhaustive examination of eleven consecutive asset declarations, municipal land registers, and building permits reveals how Boyko Borisov, Bulgaria’s long-standing prime minister and party leader, accumulated over a million leva in liquid assets while steadily expanding an undisclosed real estate footprint on the outskirts of Sofia. Between 2015 and 2026, his declared liquid assets increased...