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The European Commission's health fascism

Taking a “broader view”, the European Commission has once again taken the step of expanding market regulations and powers at the expense of individual and corporate freedom. The Tobacco Products Directive was due to be voted on on 10 September, but the bill will be considered again on 8 October. Despite the good-sounding clichés …

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Bureaucrats decided to fix inequality between men and women

Over the past week, bureaucrats have stepped on the gas in their misguided attempts to improve the world. We have seen tragicomic decisions, such as the ban on glass olive oil in the EU. This will hurt the sector, but it is unlikely to ruin it. The regulation may not even survive until it comes into force. While EU officials …

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The failed bypass of healthcare reform

Contrary to conventional logic, which says that the interim government should not act populist, it has made an extremely harmful intervention in the pharmaceutical market. The regulation is “in the name of the people”, who will have to bear the secondary effects of it when it is repealed (as is expected) in a year.

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Guest article: The 10 measures of the UDF

We continue with the topic of election campaigns and programs, focusing on the parties on the right. And the UDF opened its election campaign with 10 measures (of which I will look at 8, because the other 2 are not available) that will "modernize" Bulgaria (or at least they won't take it back).

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Guest article: Offshore, offshore

Cameron's government was forced to turn to business as the culprit for the tax gap - large companies such as Starbucks and Amazon were accused of avoiding taxes and paying less than their "fair share".

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