The most notable (and frightening!) part of the election campaign so far has been the unprecedented escalation of populist economic promises from parties that have already announced some of their economic programs. Almost all parties are pushing each other to propose "solidarity" economic policies, which would have very negative consequences for both the state budget and...

The state in which the healthcare system was left by Dr. Petar Moskov is bordering on deplorable. The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) again ran a deficit of 50 million leva at the end of 2016, and by now it has grown to 72 million leva. The fingerprint system turned out to be …