After the shockingly good performance of There Is Such a People in the last elections, the Socialist Party is licking its wounds in third place and is clearly looking for a way to focus voters' attention on itself. The series of proposed left-wing bills in recent weeks are a demonstration of this aspiration...

This text was originally published in the collection "2020: Inside and Beyond" Every intricate story has to start somewhere. In this one about the super-massive printing of money, that moment is in 2008, and the starting point is the United States. To get to the answer to the question of why central banks are printing more today …

Six years ago, on a pre-holiday December evening, hundreds of Bulgarian citizens protested in the center of Sofia against the nationalization of the second pillar of the pension system. A group of enthusiasts organized this happening under the slogan "Hands off pensions" to protect the private, real savings of every working citizen of ours. By …

When it rains heavily, the first thing that emerges from clogged manholes is mud. In political terms, it can be said that populism is at its peak precisely in the years of severe economic and health crisis that we are in. Changes are inevitably coming, and they are of key importance. What will be the course of …

The second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic and the enormous difficulties of the Bulgarian healthcare system in dealing with it have brought to public attention issues surrounding the functioning of healthcare, which were already making their way to the forefront of important public topics. One of these issues is related to the size, training and remuneration of the medical …

Last week, the Association of Language Centers in Bulgaria joined the growing number of professional associations that asked the government to provide tax breaks due to difficulties related to the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis. As expected, given the existing problems with face-to-face learning in classrooms. Schools are losing clients from …

For 2021, an increase in the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) by approximately BGN 312 million is planned. Unlike the previous year, this time it is nominal - within 7.2%, for comparison in 2019 - 2020 it was 9.1%. The main items on which these …

Every “smart” additional dollar invested in Bulgarian healthcare could yield a return of $3.4 through a larger and healthier workforce, reduced need for care among the elderly, and increased productivity among people now approaching retirement age. Such an investment could yield a 37% drop in the overall level of …

Have you ever wondered how a person like Boyko Borisov can propose an agreement like the Istanbul Convention for ratification by the parliament? How did his Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva sign the IC in Turkey in 2016, his Deputy Minister of Justice Desislava Ahladova promised at a roundtable with various …

| Full text of the analysis | | Infographics | In view of the ongoing economic crisis, resources in each of the publicly funded activities of the state are becoming scarce. Specifically for the NHIF, on the one hand, income from insurance contributions is decreasing due to the increase in unemployment, and on the other hand, income from the state budget is decreasing. Despite …