|Full text of the opinion| Dear readers, as you know from the EKIP, we have been closely following the topic of regulations on cash payments and the current government's attempts to tighten them even further. In connection with the Ministry of Finance's latest attempt to reduce the limit on the allowable amount for cash payments...

Let's imagine a small, but tall and boisterous child. Let's call him Peter. The child suffers from what psychologists call "accumulated behavioral deficits." Simply put, he is aggressive and boisterous. He often gets into conflict with his classmates. He bullies them mentally and physically. In general...

On October 10, 1977, the National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures (NGDEK) "Constantine-Cyril the Philosopher" was opened by the Committee for Culture in Sofia. The high school was opened mainly thanks to the then advocacy of Professor Alexander Fol and Lyudmila Zhivkova. The founding of NGDEK practically marked the revival of classical education in modern …

Will we draw ideas for our legislation from the countries with the most severe fiscal crises? In folk literature, there is an aphorism "when he says good evening to me, I look around to see where the sun is". The same applies when the government promises to lighten the burden on every ordinary citizen - the administrative burden. Waiting in lines in ...

On October 9, 2002, in its annual report, the European Commission recognized Bulgaria as a country with a functioning market economy. According to the EC's assessment, Bulgaria's progress in economic terms strengthened its position in the negotiations for membership in the European Union. Mainly thanks to this progress, five years later, in 2007 …

On October 8, 927, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was declared autocephalous (independent from that of the Byzantine Empire). The recognition was granted by the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapin and was part of a peace treaty concluded between Byzantium and Bulgaria at the beginning of the reign of Tsar Peter I, which provided for thirty-one …

Very often people around the world expect easy answers to complex questions. We find this type of behavior in Bulgaria when on a given topic it is said "Let's do it like it is done 'in the West' or 'in civilized countries'". The topic of preserving cultural heritage is one of those immeasurably complex issues, for which, however, ...

Recently, a professor from Maastricht University presented a report in which he recommended that the number of higher education institutions in Bulgaria be reduced to 10, because “this was the European practice.” The argument is that until this reform is carried out, any increase in funding for science will not achieve the desired result, and that only through such …

On October 7, 1950, Catholic nun Agnes Bojagiu, better known as Mother Teresa, received the Vatican's blessing to found the Missionaries of Charity as part of the Archdiocese of Calcutta. In this way, Pope Pius XII legitimized the school for the poor that she had founded in 1948. The new order numbered just 12 people...

The team of the Expert Club for Economics and Politics categorically condemns the threats that MP Anton Todorov and Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov dared to make to journalist Viktor Nikolaev, host of the morning block on Nova Television. Such treatment of journalists by politicians is absolutely unacceptable and has no place in a …