Macroeconomic Monitor
Начало / 2016 / ноември

2016.11

Can Eastern Europe be a leader in sustainable development?

Sustainable examples from the private sector In October, Coca-Cola HBC, the bottler of Coca-Cola products in Central and Eastern Europe, topped the global Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) in the Beverages sector for the third consecutive year. A week later, the company also published its new long-term goals for …

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Bulgarians think the state is wasting their money, they want lower taxes

The national representative survey "Attitudes towards Tax Policy in Bulgaria" was recently published. It was prepared by the Market Links agency on behalf of the environmental association "For the Earth" and presents many curious facts about public opinion regarding the Bulgarian tax system. Since the topic has always been of primary interest to us, the authors in ...

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Our Very Dear Emirs – A Story of French Corruption

How Qatar is buying up part of the French political class. Look at this Old Europe, which invented a “Cooperation and Verification Mechanism” to criticize and teach backward Eastern Europeans about democracy and Euro-Atlantic values. On October 20, 2016, a scandalous book with the intriguing title “Our Very Dear …

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Analysis: The legalization of medical weed in Macedonia

The article is translated by Drugreporter.hu Original in English. Yes, it’s true – since February 2016, Macedonia has legalized medical weed. The law covers the production of cannabis by legal entities, which then supply companies dealing with plant-based medical products. What is happening surprises everyone, especially considering the intolerant attitude of …

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Where did the rulers go wrong?

Yesterday, the ruling coalition lost the presidential elections in an extremely difficult way. The main reason for this is, of course, not the BSP party itself, but above all the negative vote of the people against our entire political class. This protest vote is to some extent a natural continuation of the trend of similar events in the Western …

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Now where to?

Election night confirmed all preliminary predictions, namely – Rumen Radev won the second round of the presidential elections without a hitch and, in addition to securing the presidential seat, sent the country into a parliamentary crisis with an unclear outcome, because Prime Minister Borisov expectedly announced his resignation, a commitment he had made a month ago. Why …

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