On June 16, after long debates, the Parliament adopted on second reading some of the amendments to the Health Insurance Act proposed by Minister Moskov. The main points of the amendment are as follows: NHIF will divide the health packages into two - basic and additional, with the basic one including socially significant serious diseases for which …

June 14, 2015 marks the 2nd anniversary of the start of the protests against Plamen Oresharski’s government. Ironically, something else happened on the same day: “There is such a party!”[1] With this appeal, BSP leader Mihail Mikov addressed the “disheartened” Bulgarians in Kovachevtsi – the birthplace of …

Among the huge volume of news surrounding the negotiations between Greece and its EU and IMF creditors this week, a more curious one has crept in - the central bank stated in its report on the country's monetary policy that if an agreement is not reached, Athens will embark on a course towards bankruptcy and leaving the eurozone. …

Last Monday it became clear that the Ministry of Health (MOH) has serious intentions to strengthen control over "public health" by introducing sanctions for not going for preventive check-ups: higher health contributions for "offenders". A week before that, Minister Dr. Moskov said that he wants to impose a 10% excise tax on harmful foods and ...

Lawrence Reid The decade after 1750 saw a huge economic shift in Britain. It was the era of the Industrial Revolution, marked by a colossal number of technical innovations, a huge increase in productivity, a renaissance of world trade, and a rapid increase in urban population. Historians and other analysts have struggled to interpret …

In the last few weeks, there has been a lot of buzz in the European media about the proposal by Angela Merkel and François Hollande to harmonize corporate taxes in the European Union. The specific idea is to introduce a minimum tax rate that all EU member states are required to implement (a detailed plan for this is expected …

Exchange of experience, evaluation, socialization Like any other initiative in the free market, the methodology of private and home education does not lend itself to strict mathematical analysis. Different schools and families may use different ways to educate children, and the differences may be due to many reasons - from family and ...

David Shellenberger Today I added a video introduction to my site. Thanks to James Nicoloro for the wonderful job of producing it. I wrote about it in “The First National Mark Twain Conference.” Almost 3 years ago, I wrote in my article “Libertarianism: The Political Philosophy of Compassion”: “Libertarianism is the political philosophy of compassion. It …

Bozhidar Marinov The Market The difficulties for such an initiative, of course, will come primarily from the lack of funding. While the state education system can always rely on state funding from the budget at the expense of taxpayers, private programs will have to find alternative opportunities to establish themselves in the market and make a difference. …

Recently, President Rosen Plevneliev put forward the idea of a referendum to change the electoral rules. Of the three proposed questions, one deserves special attention – do we want compulsory voting to be introduced? The first point to note is that such a question is of a very general nature and citizens do not really know …