A few weeks ago, the parliament adopted a bill on first reading, which aims to limit the amount of all cash payments to 1,000 leva by 2019. The adoption of the bill itself is a natural continuation of the worrying trend at the European level to limit cash payments. The imposition of …
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Author: Alexander Mihaylov I recently came across an article on the website "Barricade" entitled "Why Capitalism Creates Meaningless Jobs". The author of the article believes that people are still not completely freed from the need to work, not for anything else, but because the corporate elites who actually rule us cannot ...
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Author: Georgi Zayakov On June 27, the European Commission (EC) imposed an unprecedented fine of 2.4 billion euros on Alphabet, the parent company of internet giant Google. The reason – according to the EC, Google’s search engine favors its own platform “Google Shopping” and harms smaller independent shopping platforms, pushing them significantly further back in the results (often even …
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Author: Miroslav Mollov With the amendments to the Cash Payments Restriction Act adopted at first reading, it was proposed that the regulated threshold for cash payment restrictions in the country be reduced from BGN 10,000 in stages to BGN 5,000 from 01.08.2017, from BGN 5,000 to BGN 3,000 from 01.01.2018, and …
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One of the hot topics that is being discussed on the agenda of the Ministry of Health, the National Health Insurance Fund and the Parliament is chemotherapy drugs and clinical pathways for oncological diseases. Why is the topic important? One of the largest budget items of the National Health Insurance Fund concerns the treatment of oncological diseases. The budget part is heavy, due to the fact that …
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Author: Daniel Angelov Game theory is a science that studies human behavior and decision-making in conflict situations with the aim of maximizing profit. Conflict situations are situations in which the outcome of each action of one side depends on the way the opposing side acts. In its original form, the theory was …
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Author: Teodor Karakolev The topic of funding culture was briefly relevant before the elections, but quickly dropped from the agenda after the populist positives were reaped. The main comments revolved around “increasing money for culture” – as, in fact, in every sphere. (Almost) every minister you ask …
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In the last few days, there has been talk about the recommendations of the European Commission (EC) regarding the 2017 European Semester and the report on the progress of structural reforms in Bulgaria. In the section "Healthcare", the report emphasizes the following main problems of healthcare in the country: limited access, insufficient funding and poor efficiency. It is important to …
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Daniel Angelov I recently participated in a student essay competition about Bulgaria and its membership in the European Union. Almost all the participants, to my great regret, were like a gramophone record and emphasized how we are the poorest and most corrupt country (and I was left with the impression that we are almost the DPRK of …
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Recently, the claim that the minimum wage (MW) in our country is too low has been widely circulated in the Bulgarian public space. Interestingly, Bulgarian citizens themselves clearly believe that this is not the case, and the MW level should grow in proportion to the growth of the economy (as is the case with all other levels …
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