|Click for full report| Discussions around the National Recovery and Resilience Plan have been a major part of the heated political debate over the past week. They will continue to be important in the coming months. Unfortunately, they focus on the issue of the date of submission of the documentation to the European Commission, without …

|Full text of the analysis| The purpose of this analysis is to review and assess a specific part of the "Action Plan with measures addressing the main problem areas hindering the growth of investments", adopted by the Council of Ministers with the latest revision in 2019. And more precisely, a measure from this plan, relating to ...

You can support this call by signing our petition at this link. You can download this call as a separate document at this link. The currency board and the stability of the leva provided the basis for everything we have managed to build in the economic field in Bulgaria over the past 23 years. For this …

To the Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance of the National Assembly The Minister of Finance of the Republic of Bulgaria The Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank OPINION By Stoyan Panchev In his capacity as Chairman of the Expert Club for Economics and Politics - TEAM DEAR MADAM CHAIRMAN, DEAR Mister MINISTER, DEAR Mister GOVERNOR, …

54% of adult Bulgarians want a referendum on Bulgaria's entry into the eurozone 50% of adult Bulgarians are against the introduction of the euro, only 19% support it Voters of the major parties are against the euro, while their elected officials – 60% of adult Bulgarians consider the leva a stable currency The majority of Bulgarians do not …

In September, the EKIP presented the analysis - "Economic Status and Development of Small Regional Centers in Bulgaria". The focus was on the 8 regional centers with the smallest urban population in the country since 2007-2008. These are the municipalities of Montana, Lovech, Silistra, Razgrad, Targovishte, Kardzhali, Kyustendil and Smolyan. The data we examined include both …

A year ago, we published the report "Urban Planning Policy in Sofia: Recommendations for Reform", in which we proposed the introduction of a "Congestion" fee as a measure to address traffic problems in the capital. Simply put, a congestion fee is a fee that all cars must pay to enter the busiest city areas, especially in ...

Media appearances in August covered the presentation of our new study against the restriction of cash payments, healthcare, is a new economic recession coming, and the accuracy of drug tests used by the traffic police. The latest economic analysis of the EKIP - "Regulations on cash payments and their effects" presents evidence that ...

On January 21, 1924, Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), the ideological inspirer of the October Revolution of 1917 and the first leader of the Soviet Union, died. In the years after his death, a real cult of his personality was created. His body lies in the center of Moscow to this day as a symbol of an entire era. Here …

When the idea of the Eurozone was actively promoted in the 1980s and 1990s, the main advantage of the future monetary union was the expected "convergence" or, in other words, the rapprochement that it would bring about between the different member states. The idea is that, through the shared currency, the economies of the different member states would …