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Emil A. Georgiev

Emil A. Georgiev is a lawyer and university lecturer in intellectual property. An activist for civil, social and political change through genuine, deep and comprehensive reform of the judiciary. He is an advocate for digital rights, free internet and open source software. One of the founders and first chairman of the board of directors of the liberal party DEOS - from May 2014 to January 2017. He is also a member of the Justice for Everyone Initiative, the Initiative Committee for Lawyer Reform "IKAR", as well as the association "Liberal Ideas for Bulgaria and Europe". In the elections for the 44th National Assembly, he was a candidate for MP from the "Yes, Bulgaria" coalition in 24 MIR-Sofia. Father of one daughter.

Free speech, social media and the law

social networks

Free speech and its attacks are always relevant. Especially in recent days. Trump's banishment from Twitter and the removal of the Parler platform from Apple and Google stores are yet another reason to remember that freedom of expression is perhaps the most important of the entire set of fundamental rights, the achievement of which …

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The EC monitoring report: positive, then with the opposite sign

EC monitoring report

The pretty lady in the photo is Vera Jourova, member of the European Commission responsible for justice. Under her supervision, so to speak, is the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, in which Bulgaria and Romania agreed to participate in order to join the European Union in 2007. Within the framework of this same mechanism …

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Austrian Rhapsody in Black and Blue

Is 31 a lot or a little? This is the age of the leader of the People's Party, Sebastian Kurz, the winner of yesterday's parliamentary elections in Austria, who will most likely receive a mandate to form a government from the president of the Alpine republic. The Greens have also been represented in the Austrian parliament for 31 years. That is, …

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