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Stoyan Panchev

Stoyan Panchev graduated from Sofia University and the University of London. He worked at the Institute of Economic Affairs, London and the Institute for Market Economics, Sofia. Chairman of the Bulgarian Libertarian Society. Co-founder of the Expert Club for Economics and Politics (EKIP). Lecturer at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Eagle, cancer and pike of Bulgarian healthcare

IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: The article was originally published on the website of the newspaper "SEGA". As a result of DEliberate semantic editing, corrections were made to the text WITHOUT being coordinated with the author. Therefore, we are now publishing the original of the article. We believe that the editorial staff of the newspaper "SEGA" owes the necessary apology for the semantic changes that ...

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1. What American legalization looks like from the first person (Dimitar Karagegov)

"60 Minutes of Freedom!" is back with a new host - not just anyone, but the chairman of the Bulgarian Libertarian Society and the Expert Club for Economics and Politics himself! From now on, Stoyan Panchev will select and interview the guests in our titular podcast. The technical team behind the podcast has also been changed, so please …

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Principles are not pasta: Jock, Bonev and the right-wing yellow vests

The yellow-paved ideological bubble is jumping through the phases of change significantly faster than the rest of the country. We can explain this with a simple interpretation of Maslow's pyramid, in which materially satisfied millennials have climbed much higher than village grandmothers. Even more so with open access to waves of new information about …

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There are alternatives instead of burdening Sofia residents with new taxes

The management tradition of raising taxes under the radar has also reached local authorities. After Mayor Yordanka Fandakova hinted during the election campaign that they would not be raised in the capital, shortly after the start of her new term we were surprised with the news that GERB needs to raise nearly 40 million more...

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The biggest danger facing second pensions

On October 12, a roundtable was held with the participation of the state, private funds, and experts, which was supposed to decide what the rules should be for paying the first pensions from the second insurance pillar, which is due to be in 2021. Or at least that's what they expected from the Association of Private Pension Funds, …

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Reform to improve access to healthcare in Bulgaria

|Full text of the analysis| The results of the study of the Bulgarian market show the conclusions of previous analyses, such as the one commissioned by the European Commission in 2019, concerning the positive effects of the entry of biosimilar medicines into European markets. In other words, price competition between biosimilar medicines and reference medicines (together and among themselves) allows …

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Hospital care reforms or I want to, but I don't want to

"I will not close hospitals during my term" Election situation and political promises The elections are approaching rapidly, the political situation is intensifying, the promises to the electorate are becoming more radical and unarguable. Each of the candidates is striving to encompass interest groups and satisfy their needs and desires. In this turbulent political …

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What is the Global Climate Strike fighting for?

The Global Climate Strike

You may have noticed how in recent days the media, and especially a national television station, have been inundating us with constant information about the climate apocalypse, which seems to be about to plunge our planet into horrors such as fires, floods and wetter summers. These PR exercises, of course, are not accidental. As of today, globally …

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More questions than solutions

More than a week ago, a draft amendment to the Law on Medicinal Products in Human Medicine (LMHPHM) was published on the website of the Ministry of Health. In addition to the changes to the law itself, the transitional and final provisions of the draft make adjustments to 10 other laws related to healthcare. A similar case was …

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What should we expect from the ECB led by Christine Lagarde?

After three days of secret meetings and pledges in Brussels, European Union leaders emerged from the conference rooms with consensus candidates for the most important political posts in the bloc. The biggest surprise of the four nominations is that of current IMF chief Christine Lagarde, who is set to succeed Mario Draghi as ECB president. Although …

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