They ask me where we are with the euro. In the summer of 2018, Bulgaria made unilateral commitments to carry out a number of actions in several areas - as preconditions for our subsequent admission to ERM-2 and the Banking Union. And now everything has been reported as fulfilled. The Council of Ministers is holding a special meeting and ...

| Full text of the analysis | According to data from the European Commission, Bulgaria ranks first in the number of smokers in the European Union. Despite a small decline in recent years, about 40% of the population still uses tobacco products. The socio-health and economic costs associated with their use are increasing annually, despite attempts to limit them …

The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has created one of the most serious problems for both the European Court of Justice and the European Central Bank in their entire history. This happened with a decision examining the legality of the ECB’s main asset purchase program, or so-called quantitative easing, called the Public Sector Purchase Programme …

In recent weeks, we have witnessed a heated debate between doctors and master pharmacists about the right and procedure for prescribing medicines for Bulgarian patients. Pharmacists are starting from the point of view that due to the state of emergency, there is a possibility that certain medicines or their analogues will become scarce goods. Here …

The COVID-19 epidemic in Bulgaria is developing. Speculation about whether it is in its beginning, middle and end should be left aside, as the main goal at the moment should be to minimize the risk of the widespread spread of the virus. Even now, predictions about its development are …

At a special counter-briefing on Sunday, Prime Minister Borissov, provoked by President Radev's statements and veto on the state of emergency law, commented on a range of topics of key importance beyond the pandemic that has hit the world. He made a kind of joke at opponents of joining the eurozone and defenders of the currency board, telling us …

Crises expose the bones of reality, dispel the fog of political formulas and incantations. We usually spend the dramatic moments that have come into the public spotlight, separated from the real events in a fabricated version of the true facts. Effigies smeared with lipstick and adorned with sequins, we wage our ritual battles in front of the media cameras, …

Stoyan Panchev talks to Vasil Makarinov from the Architectural Modernism Foundation. You will be able to hear about the history of Sofia, how its appearance came about, what lies behind the past of some interesting buildings from all over the country, how history is preserved, what work the guys from Architectural Modernism do to …

Guests in the second episode of the new edition of "60 Minutes of Freedom!" are the stars of the debate "The Scythe: Left or Right" organized by the Bulgarian Libertarian Society in December - Georgi Vuldjev and Lachezar Tomov! Lache is a mathematician and a lecturer at the National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures (NGDEK) and NBU, and Georgi …

The politicization of healthcare is already a fact – predicted, expected and dangerous. Some argue that this is for the good, that the health of the nation is too important a segment to be left to professionals, the healthcare industry or the individual. They also say that its management is an extremely important function of the current political …