The short answer is because, despite all the banditry that is spreading throughout the country, for the past 12 years the government has been unwaveringly implementing the agenda of the Berlin-Brussels-Paris axis. This so-called agenda generally consists of centralization and transfer of sovereignty (so-called European integration), granting artificial competitive advantages to industries/countries with strong lobbies in Brussels …
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“Conservator”: The End of an Experiment
The “Conservator” website is deserted. At the time of writing this text, the most current articles on the main page were uploaded at best three days ago. None of the five were written for the site – they are all reprints. To the extent that there are still people who make efforts for “Conservator”, they are directed …
More »Bulgaria in the euro against the backdrop of the bitter Italian experience
EKIP: Dear readers, we present to your attention an extremely valuable analysis of the "Theory of the Optimal Currency Area" and Italy's experience in introducing the euro. There are many useful things that can be learned from the experience of other countries in joining the eurozone, from which Bulgaria should learn a lesson. On …
More »We asked the ECB: What are they doing about BDB supervision?
Bulgaria has been a member of the Banking Union for 9 months now. A key element of the BS is the so-called Single Supervisory Mechanism, which was promised by the supporters of the eurozone to correct the problems in local banking supervision. With the letter below, the EKIP asked the ECB – what they have done, what they are doing and …
More »Why green energy should be like Bitcoin
The national plan under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility is a major topic of discussion in both the new Bulgarian parliament and the excited post-election public sphere. The facility is just one part of the €750 billion Next Generation EU package (nearly half in the form of loans) born out of the pandemic, …
More »The political reorientation of the BSP (and others)
After the shockingly good performance of There Is Such a People in the last elections, the Socialist Party is licking its wounds in third place and is clearly looking for a way to focus voters' attention on itself. The series of proposed left-wing bills in recent weeks are a demonstration of this aspiration...
More »Are there any heralds left?
"The material that appears in elections or from which we can choose as footage is not great at all," said Boyko Borisov at a meeting with Bulgarians in Chicago in 2009. Although the media then attributed to him the words "the material is bad," which he never actually said, what he said then...
More »"Wet, hungry, tired"
The title is a quote from the popular Bulgarian march "Great is our soldier", which was written in 1916. The author of the text is Second Lieutenant Konstantin Georgiev Popov from the 23rd Infantry Shipka Regiment. The year of writing is important. At that time, the country was involved in the third war in the second decade of the 20th century. Bulgarian participation ...
More »How Bulgaria almost got a private national opera during the left-wing BZNS
Often in more specialized circles, there is talk of the “Overton Window” – the conditional shift of the political “center” to the left over time, as ideas once considered quite ordinary are today presented in society as “extreme”. Here we will go back 100 years, to the time of the Bulgarian National Union of Socialists and Alexander Stamboliyski. The government …
More »Tsvetelina Yaneva, retrowave and futurism
Let's talk about culture on Good Friday. Specifically, about Tsvetelina Yaneva, the retrowave aesthetic and the lost futurism of contemporary mass culture. Keep reading if you want to find out what Tsvetelina Yaneva and Elon Musk have in common. Do you listen to Tsvetelina Yaneva, ladies and gentlemen? And do you watch her music videos? …
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