Author: Vasil Kanev About Slavi's show and the show's fame, which suffered a surprising blow On Wednesday (21.11.2018) there was an extremely interesting episode of "Slavi's Show" with a guest - the Bulgarian Prime Minister. Right from the very beginning, I was impressed by the mood of the host - slightly stiff, tense and not particularly happy. …

Author: Momchil Petrov An unusual protest took place in Sofia this weekend. Billed as a “Prayer March for Free Profession of Faith,” the event’s goal was to oppose the changes to the Law on Religious Denominations that were voted on in the first reading. The protest was organized by the Protestant churches in Sofia and was supported …

Guest author: Stefan Boyadzhiev Man never mounts higher than when he knows not where he is going. —Oliver Cromwell* Two weeks ago, EKIP published an article by Slavcho Marinov, which was dedicated to a critique of libertarianism. It, in turn, was the second part of the author's more general theme and idea, to …

Guest author: Dimitar Tomov Dimitar Tomov is a young entrepreneur, owner of a small business in the technology sector, who, like many other Bulgarian entrepreneurs and workers, is puzzled by the confusing complexity of the Bulgarian tax code: The confusion between gross and net salary in Bulgaria does not come only because of the terms used. People have long used …

Author: Martin Nikolaev One of the previous chairmen of the Financial Supervision Commission and a manager of part of the largest financial and industrial group in the country stated that "today the FSC finally died". The committee, scattered in terms of competence and already completely seized by politics, is truly experiencing its hardest days. And instead of this senseless agony to ...

Author: Vasil Kanev The Bulgarian socialists decided to present their vision for Bulgaria, in which they repeatedly emphasize how important it is for the state to take part in all spheres of human life, to plan and redistribute from the rich to the poor, from those who produce to those who need it. In this regard …

Guest author: Martin Nikolaev From fines for patent leather bags to a political bludgeon Until a month ago, the Competition Protection Commission was known as just one of the many useless state institutions, mainly dealing with fining online stores and women's boutiques for uncompetitively pampering Bulgarian girls with a bonus leather bag...

Author: Georgi Georgiev And why exactly for this reason should they be deprived of the right to dispose of them? The topic of this post inspired me to read the book by Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein: “The State in the Third Millennium” which I recommend to anyone interested in …

Author: Georgi Georgiev Companies in the European Union are expected to spend around 200 billion euros to bring their personal data processing and storage procedures into line with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679). This is around 4 times the estimated GDP of Bulgaria for …

Author: Nikolay Filibev With the arrival of April, a change in the tax system in Scotland came into effect. The existing income tax system in the UK is being complicated by adding two new rates and changing their scope. The main argument with which the minority Scottish National Party government was able to …