On January 30, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that regardless of whether the European Union (EU) imposes a tax on financial transactions (the so-called Tobin Tax), this type of bet will be introduced by France as early as August this year. The tax will be 0.1% of each transaction, will …

Expert Club for Economics and Politics | January 2012 In the fourth edition of the monthly newsletter of EKIP you can find: Schengen skepticism (Stoyan Panchev) The World Bank's forecasts for Bulgaria in 2012 (Yavor Aleksiev) Return on investments in 2011 and expectations for 2012 (Methodi Tsanov) Theatrical line (Momchil Elenkov) Politics …

Let's make ourselves interesting for Schengen too. Recent Bulgarian governments have made great efforts to enter the Schengen area. At the same time, although we have met the nominal criteria for securing the borders to the required standard, our country's candidacy is being used as a tool for conducting internal policy by some European …

Something strange has been happening in the financial markets lately. Despite the deepening debt crisis in Europe and the threat of a slowdown in emerging economies, led by China, the bulls have been gaining ground in the stock markets. Since November 21, 2011, the S&P 500 index (consisting of 500 large American companies) has …

On January 16, 2012, Yavor Alexiev was a guest on the show Boom & Bust on Bulgaria On Air. [youtube]SEff1xCe3cc[/youtube]