Author: Bill Wertz, vocaleurope.eu The latest move by the Social Democrats and Greens in the European Parliament has called for a gradual phasing out of phosphate in doner kebabs. Or at least that’s what the headlines were saying until the Social Democrats’ wing came out with the claim that this was actually fake news. The popular Turkish dish is …

After the publication of the summary of the infamous BAS report on the Belene NPP and its financial profitability, the government is doing everything in its power to convince the public that the Belene NPP is not only a viable but also a necessary project. This, of course, is complete nonsense. The only reason any politician would be interested in …

The bursting of the Bitcoin bubble will happen when the global economic situation begins to deteriorate. This was commented by the editor-in-chief of the Expert Club for Economics and Politics (EKIP) Georgi Vuldzhev on the “Investbook” show with host Dimitar Vuchev. “It is difficult to predict when this will happen, but considering that central banks are already tightening their …

In connection with the deepening financial instability of the healthcare sector in Bulgaria, the experts from the EKIP have found a solution to the problem of the continuous increase in the costs of medicines of the NHIF. The analysis used data from the drug group of sartans (medicinal products for the treatment of arterial hypertension) for the period 2005-2016. …

|Full text of the analysis| Summary and conclusions from the analysis of the sartan group: The results of this study confirm the conclusions of previous analyses, such as the World Bank's 2015 analysis, as well as good practices from EU countries, and quantify the positive effects of implementing a progeneric policy within the framework of …

Mark Spitznagel, Mises.org With each new peak in the price of Bitcoin, claims that it will become the best store of value of our time – the new gold – become more and more frequent. However, we cannot ignore the fact that it is essentially a speculative investment …

Author: Kaloyan Staykov They say that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. This phrase seems like a very accurate analogy to the moratorium imposed on the financing of new drugs and new medical activities by the National Health Insurance Fund in 2018. The reason for the restrictions is the inability of the authorities to limit the steep increase in health insurance costs in …