This year's budget for medicines in Bulgaria amounts to 1.2 billion leva, forming a quarter of the total healthcare budget of the National Health Insurance Fund. However, our market still lacks certain medicines that are easily accessible in the European market. The lack of these medicines, as well as the abuses on this market, are mainly due to …

The common European currency is not particularly successful in its task of bringing the peoples of the Old Continent closer together – this is easily seen in the division of Europe into one or two speeds, the groups of countries that comply with and do not comply with the Maastricht criteria, and of course the severe tension between center and periphery, north and south, expressed most clearly...

Healthcare spending is increasing year by year, with the largest increase in absolute terms over the past few years being observed in the hospital care item in the NHIF budget. It represents nearly 47% of the department's budget, and since 2014 it has grown by BGN 750 million, or …

The native MEPs were beating their chests that they had successfully fought for new EU legislation in the field of consumer goods, through which they would prevent the so-called "double standard" of food between the eastern and western parts of the continent. Whether this is fake news or just political posturing - remains a topic of …

We are witnessing a political consensus whose consequences and philosophical basis are completely ignored and excluded from public conversation. Politicians, literally from all the major powers, are talking openly about how they will transfer key elements of the country's sovereignty to one or more supranational institutions, gathered under the umbrella of the European Union. The leader of the list …

Like Hollywood productions, with their two- or three-minute video trailers presenting the content of an expected hit movie, the leading powers in the European Union have recently managed to show us the planned future of the continent. This was demonstrated by the dramatic vote in the European Parliament on the so-called "mobility package" - which, disguised as ...

The principle of "no dissatisfied" is particularly respected in the pre-election environment in Bulgaria. This year's elections are double, and so are the expectations. The promise of the ruling party that no hospitals will be closed during their term speaks well enough about the attitude they have towards reforms in the healthcare system. In order to ...

As the next European Parliament elections approach this month, it is good to remember what happened during the previous mandate of our current representatives at European level. Over the past few years, a number of crazy bills have passed through the EP, which unfortunately were adopted, very often with a wide …

The upcoming European elections will play an important role in the direction of pan-continental development in the coming years, although our, Bulgarian, results are not particularly significant. The avalanche-like downward slide of Eurofederalization may be temporarily diverted or at least delayed as a consequence of the May vote in Germany and France. …

After midnight parliamentary dramas, we woke up to yet another change in the electoral legislation, seemingly inspired and pushed through by the MRF. On the one hand, this is another lesson for small urban parties about how much power a small political force can wield without interfering with GERB, on the other hand, it is an opportunity …