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 …

Today is the Bulgarian language matriculation exam. It is a good time to mention their pros and cons: 1. Under certain circumstances, matriculation exams could serve as a benchmark for the quality of public education. The problem is that the complexity and content of the tests change every year and the grades on them are almost …

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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 The regulation is “in the name of the people”, who will have to bear the secondary effects of it when it is repealed (as is expected) in a year.

The quality of education in Bulgaria is a widely acknowledged problem. Commentators who rarely agree on other topics nod in the affirmative when it comes to educational reform. Unfortunately, the proposals for changing the situation in public education circulating in the public sphere are, to put it mildly, unoriginal, if not potentially harmful. This is also evident …

Representatives of the "Made in Bulgaria" union accuse (some) of the retail chains in the country of monopoly and unfair practices aimed at extracting maximum profit and "eating" the profits of local producers.

Left-wing commentators have been using argumentum ad nauseam against Margaret Thatcher's government - the accusations are the same no matter how much evidence they are refuted by or how many times they are proven wrong. Some of their claims have been debunked by Alistair Heath on City AM, but that doesn't stop the anti-Thatcher squad from...

The negative reactions provoked by the British government's decision to restrict immigrants' full access to the island's social system are largely unjustified.

After the latest student representation events, we decided to talk to Rosen Sharkov from the UNWE. He is an activist in the "Change for Students" Movement and is fighting for us all to see different student councils. Here's what he told us.

Central bank intervention in financial markets distorts the supply and demand of various asset classes, which has repercussions on the productive structure of the economy and the consumption and saving behavior of individuals. Eliminating the risk premium is only part of the central bank's portfolio of vices.