Guest author: Krasen Stanchev Here's what I had to comment on the sighs of an old friend... The calculations for the resources of humanity on the occasion of August 2 are not just incorrect, dear Petko (Simeonov), but they are also incorrectly conceived, calculated and explained. From the "Club of Rome" to now, the resources have "run out" of about ...
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From EKIP we republish from Facebook the comment of Teodor Dimokenchev regarding the local referendums recently held in Tran and Uglen: Once again, a local referendum is being held in a Bulgarian settlement (Uglen) to approve a serious infrastructure project. Once again, investments have been stopped by the local population. I am personally …
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Author: Kaloyan Pravov In 2016, the parliament passed an unprecedented law that made voting mandatory, thus revoking the voting rights of all citizens. Although the texts providing for criminal sanctions for non-voters were repealed, voting is still “mandatory” by law. This year, the political class decided to bring a new dose of confusion …
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Author: Ivo Kolarov The shamelessness of the left-wing political spectrum by nature has no limits. Its main apologists at home and abroad are able to deny and justify all the crimes of the followers of their political ideology from the Holodomor in Ukraine to the current situation in Venezuela. In order to take the position of “fighters …
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“Your capitalist attitude towards women is not there under communism.” These were the words of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Vice President Richard Nixon at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Nixon was there, representing not only the American government, but also General Mills, Whirlpool …
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Author: Gratsian Kolev Wooden philosophy has repeatedly given specific characteristics for the phenomenon called intellectual* and for this reason I will not emphasize today the dissection of this phenomenon. Today's talk will be directed to one (also considered by wooden philosophy) Painful question, which can be called: WHAT ARE …
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Author: Miroslav Mollov With the amendments to the Cash Payments Restriction Act adopted at first reading, it was proposed that the regulated threshold for cash payment restrictions in the country be reduced from BGN 10,000 in stages to BGN 5,000 from 01.08.2017, from BGN 5,000 to BGN 3,000 from 01.01.2018, and …
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Author: Ivo Kolarov Human rights are a main topic of all political programs in Europe and the rest of the "Western" world. Along with the so-called "natural" ones, new ones are increasingly sneaking in, such as the privileges of receiving free medical care, education, income, etc. In Bulgaria, populism has long been ...
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Daniel Angelov I recently participated in a student essay competition about Bulgaria and its membership in the European Union. Almost all the participants, to my great regret, were like a gramophone record and emphasized how we are the poorest and most corrupt country (and I was left with the impression that we are almost the DPRK of …
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In connection with the upcoming parliamentary elections, EKIP decided to evaluate the election party programs of some of the more important players. We chose the traditional major parties along with most of the smaller parties, which according to sociological surveys have a chance of overcoming the 1% barrier that entitles them to state subsidies. In view of the profile …
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