Yesterday, the deputies finally adopted legal changes indicating the creation of the long-discussed National Health Card and selectivity of the NHIF in terms of which hospitals it will conclude a contract with. The new reform was enthusiastically welcomed by the ranks of the Reformist Bloc, while the opposition was firmly against it. The goals of the reform The first of them …

On this day 71 years ago, Bulgarian communists staged a coup d’état and seized power in Bulgaria. Today, their successors once again celebrate the “bright holiday,” trying to convince us of what an achievement communism was for Bulgaria. Let us recall this chapter in the country’s history. The red narrative of the events is that …

In the middle of last week, it became clear that, as almost every year, unions and employers have reached an agreement to increase the amount of social security contributions. It will affect 39 industries, employing 956 thousand people. Social Minister Ivailo Kalfin indicated that the remaining industries have a deadline to agree on their increase by …

The focus of media and politicians in recent weeks and months has been the so-called “refugee crisis” in the EU. Whether they view it as a “wave of Islamization in Europe,” as many on the right do, or as a “humanitarian crisis,” as many on the left interpret the events, most …

Eight years ago, Coca-Cola set a goal to return all of the water it uses in its products to nature by 2020. On August 24, 2015, the company announced that it had achieved its goal five years ahead of schedule. Unlike the environmental dramas we are bombarded with daily – resources are …

In recent days, we have witnessed a sharp sell-off in global stocks. The negative trend in Asia, led by the stock market crash in China, has also spread to the capital markets in the US and Europe. The speculative bubble in the Chinese stock market is starting to deflate, and monetary authorities are doing everything they can to …

A key quality of leftist intellectuals is their total denial of reality. In their fight for a “just world,” they skillfully use the rhetoric of Big Brother (not the one from television, but the one from Orwell’s novel “1984”), easily managing to mislead their audience, calling freedom slavery, war…

As September approaches, market participants are increasingly anxiously awaiting the Federal Reserve's (FED) decision on the key interest rate in the United States. Will the world's most influential central bank raise the key interest rate, which has been in the range of 0.0-0.25% since late 2008? How will this affect …

Julian Adderney[1] People who believe that capitalism is about huge, powerful, multinational corporations miss some of the key elements of free markets. Information, capitalism and open source In a surprisingly influential article in The Guardian, Paul Mason argues that the sweeping changes taking place in the economy are early symptoms of so-called “post-capitalism.” But …

On July 29, in his show, Slavi Trifonov, demonstrating deep sorrow and indignation at the decision of the deputies to reject the referendum proposed by President Rosen Plevneliev, announced that he would initiate a petition to hold a new referendum, which would include the following 7 questions: Changing the electoral system to a majoritarian one; Reducing the …