The Sofia neighborhood of Mladost has become a center of what American political scientists call grassroots activism. Starting with the election of the controversial and currently indicted Desislava Ivancheva as district mayor in October 2016 – through the support of local committees and gravitating activists of small urban parties in opposition to …

As a continuation of the topic of the Libertarian approach to immigration, we publish a look at one of the most interesting citizenship systems operating in our time. The Swiss model covers a significant part of the proposed reforms in the aforementioned article, with which we opened the topic in the EKIP. 1. Switzerland has two processes for obtaining citizenship. …

A few weeks ago, the scandal with the "carcinogenic valsartan" erupted, which quickly swept the media and created the prerequisites for numerous speculations about the quality of medications from this group. We at EKIP reacted quickly by publishing an article by M.A. Pharm. Dimitar Galabov, who clearly explained the problem, emphasizing that there is no need to panic. What a …

The European migrant crisis that began in 2015 has opened an expected front for a new cultural and political war within the Old Continent. The destructive military interventions of the US and its allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the “invitation to refugees” issued by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the internal tensions in the richer members of the Union coming …

Uncontrollably growing budget for medicines Over the past few years, the growth in the cost of medicines paid by the NHIF has been between 15-20% on an annual basis. In 2018, the costs reached 1 billion, and the primary reaction of the institutions was the so-called limitation of payment for innovative medicines, entitled "moratorium", which fell ...

In recent months, lottery games and their fans have been under serious political attack by Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov and the extra-parliamentary opposition in the person of the Democratic Bulgaria union. A bill has already been submitted to the National Assembly, which includes two main proposals – to limit (especially television) lottery advertising …

What are the critical points that the healthcare system will face by the end of 2018? Over the past few months, we have witnessed a number of scandals in the healthcare sector and an unceasing whirlpool of ideas, proposals and policies that, after an attempt to be put into practice, are rejected by the system in every possible way and …

We are in the process of yet another assault, organized by the native authorities, towards one of the half-wanted, half-unwanted so-called national goals. As with the Schengen zone, so with the common currency of the European Union, the government is wandering between a reasonable wait for the problems to be eventually resolved, aka Simeon Dyankov with the Euro, and enthusiastic demarches to …

What happens when a country has a limited public resource for healthcare that has no clear owner? Quite simply – it is distributed according to the needs of certain market players, and the entire system starts bidding for a piece of it. What happens? This is also the case with …

This article is part of the "Black Book of Government Waste", published in 2015. With over 65 million leva in annual subsidies from the state budget, the Bulgarian National Television is the largest budget-financed media in the country. The television is an institution with a special status, performing certain public functions. The current director of BNT, Vyara Ankova …