EU funds for Bulgaria

The full corpus of EU-funding contracts published by ИСУН 2020 (the Bulgarian Management Information System for EU Funds) — over 80,000 contracts for ~€43B contracted and ~€16B paid. Coverage spans operational programmes and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, with a choropleth by municipality, top beneficiaries, programmes and awarders.

What you'll find

• Map by municipality — choropleth of contracted funds, normalised by population.
• Top beneficiaries — companies and state entities with the largest EU-funding receipts.
• Programmes — breakdown by operational programme and fund (ERDF, ESF, EAFRD, etc.) with top contracts and beneficiaries.
• Political economy — companies that received EU funds and have a connected MP or senior official.
• Integrity — concentration (HHI), serial winners, debarred contractors.
• RRF — Recovery and Resilience Plan: reforms and investments by pillar.
• Editorial focus — themes such as guest houses, roads, agriculture, schools, municipal infrastructure.

Source: ИСУН 2020 — public module, Beneficiaries. Connected politicians come from the MP business-connections graph (Court of Audit declarations + Commerce Registry).