One of the most frequently repeated words by protesters in recent months is 'oligarchy.' They use it to describe Bulgaria's current economic and political model - the real power in the hands of a handful of people directly connected to the state apparatus, who use all their available resources to enrich themselves at the expense of ...

In recent weeks, a major topic of contention in American politics has been the enactment of a new health insurance system – the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare). In short, under this system, the federal government obliges every American citizen to purchase health insurance, and in addition …

We use the rostrum of the EKIP to invite you to the first regional conference of European Students For Liberty in Bulgaria. All visitors will have the opportunity to listen to lectures and discuss topics from the fields of economics, politics, philosophy, ethics and many others with our guests and speakers. The event will feature the following speakers: …

For years, economists have been warning that the model of supporting renewable energy sources is ineffective. Subsidies have a high opportunity cost and an energy bubble is inflating. Industry and households are paying more for electricity. Data for Spain and Germany show that the criticism is justified and the green fairy tale is coming to an end. And where …

The formation of the so-called Reformist Bloc (RB) was announced back in May, but it presented its views on Bulgaria's economy only in early October. It is difficult to say that the ideas of the new political union are an alternative to the status quo, because in general they preserve the size of the state and in …

More and more people are realizing the ineffectiveness of the education offered by public schools. The most obvious sign of this is the growing number of young people who pay for private lessons.1 Both students and their parents see that it is impossible to obtain quality training in a given subject through school activities alone. The desire of the rulers …

Why are things not working out in the energy sector? Politicians have all the leverage to control the industry, but in practice they systematically make the wrong decisions. The usual excuse is a lack of sufficient control over the sector. The political decision-making process has inherent defects that stand out when compared to the free market, which by its very nature …

Millions were killed in the name of the socialist "kingdom of plenty", and even more were the destinies marked by persecution, torture and camps. According to the well-known "Black Book of Communism", the victims of the hammer and sickle in the 20th century numbered 94 million - a staggering number, which becomes even more terrifying when we get acquainted with ...

Today we truly live in the Age of Statistics. In a country and an era in which statistics are revered as “scientific” and as offering the key to all knowledge, and in which vast amounts of data of all kinds and forms are showered upon us. Most of it from the government.

One of the most frequently repeated refrains from the Bulgarian teachers' union is that the amount of funds that Bulgaria allocates for education is too small. It is true that the Bulgarian state's spending on education as a share of GDP is the lowest in the EU, but this fact in itself is not …