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2017

Should we try to make children equal?

black and white textbooks

Author: Filip Petrov The news of a publishing house printing two editions of a textbook – color and black and white – was circulating in the media. The mass indignation that various populists expressed was that this was bad – fueling the division between poor and rich in schools. Let’s think more seriously about the issue…

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Is education compulsory in Bulgaria?

compulsory education

Author: Yavor Ganchev Most people will answer in the affirmative, and some will also quote Art. 53(2) of the Constitution: "School education up to the age of 16 is compulsory" Most people do not even notice that it is not about education, but about "school education". This is so because for most people - and with ...

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Should animals have rights like humans?

animal rights

Author: Mariola Yankova The question of whether animals have rights and whether this fact does not make us humans criminals has never been more relevant. Activists periodically appear both in Bulgaria and in other Western countries and the USA, who use the rhetoric of rights to urge us to stop consuming …

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Why should the government NOT accept Macron's ultimatum?

As you have surely already understood, a few days ago the new President of France Emmanuel Macron visited Bulgaria and during his personal meeting with Prime Minister Borisov he set the following ultimatum: France will support Bulgaria's interests within the EU and in particular our possible candidacy for entry into the Eurozone...

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Why didn't the Seven Kingdoms in Game of Thrones undergo an industrial revolution?

Adam Ozimek, Forbes.com Note: This article is about the TV show Game of Thrones and contains spoilers. Westeros’ technological and economic development seems to have been frozen for a very long time. Bran the Builder built Winterfell and the Wall about 8,000 years ago, suggesting that the same medieval building technologies were in place back then. …

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About the new TEAM

EKIP

Six years after the enthusiastic beginning, EKIP is in a new phase of its development. In 2011, we started as a blog of young economists, political scientists, lawyers, as a gathering place for the ideas of future policy experts. Today, they are already actively participating in discussions about the shape of the market, the state and the economic future of the country…

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The landing of Air Berlin

Air Berlin

This article was originally published by the newspaper "Trud" Author: Georgi Zayakov On Tuesday (August 15), the second largest airline in Germany, Air Berlin, entered bankruptcy proceedings. Since 2008, with one exception, the company has been accumulating losses and debts. The past 2016 was also associated with …

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