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Statements from Washington, such as that of Vice President Mike Pence, that the United States is ready for dialogue with North Korea, are positive in light of the tensions that have arisen over the past year, caused by Pyongyang's series of ballistic missile tests and the US's massive military exercises on the Korean Peninsula. He commented to Ivailo …

 Food prices in Bulgaria are approaching the average European level, Violeta Ivanova from the Confederation of Bulgarian Trade Unions (CITUB) commented in the studio of “Hello, Bulgaria”. “Our food products reach 71% of the average European price levels, and some of them, such as vegetable oils, exceed the average European levels by about 9%. The prices of milk and dairy products …

Defending the position "against" Bulgaria's possible entry into the Eurozone, our editor-in-chief Georgi Vuldzhev entered into a debate with former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Nikolay Vassilev on bTV. According to Vuldzhev, the negatives of entering the Eurozone far outweigh the potential positives: If Bulgaria enters the Eurozone, which means eliminating …

The bursting of the Bitcoin bubble will happen when the global economic situation begins to deteriorate. This was commented by the editor-in-chief of the Expert Club for Economics and Politics (EKIP) Georgi Vuldzhev on the “Investbook” show with host Dimitar Vuchev. “It is difficult to predict when this will happen, but considering that central banks are already tightening their …

In connection with the deepening financial instability of the healthcare sector in Bulgaria, the experts from the EKIP have found a solution to the problem of the continuous increase in the costs of medicines of the NHIF. The analysis used data from the drug group of sartans (medicinal products for the treatment of arterial hypertension) for the period 2005-2016. …

Our editor-in-chief Georgi Vuldzhev this week was a guest on the show "Resonance" on Eurocom TV with host Vasko Mavrikov. The topic of conversation between the two was another restriction on cash payments, Budget 2018 and the state of the pension system. Regarding the lowering of the threshold for cash payments adopted at first reading …

The problem in the field of culture is related to the spending of funds, not their quantity. This was stated in Investbook with Dimitar Vuchev by Kapana.bg editor-in-chief Teodor Karakolev. According to the interlocutor in the program, the top priority should be to resolve the problem related to what exactly cultural funds are spent on. “It is hardly …

Budget 2018 is extremely left-wing. This is important to say. When you increase taxes, when you increase public spending, this is left-wing politics. This was said by economist from EKIP Nikola Filipov on the Investbook show on Bloomberg TV Bulgaria with host Dimitar Vuchev. "This is a serious problem for me, which in the years will lead to deep …

The 2018 draft budget is a worse remix of the 2017 budget, which itself was pretty bad. So, the 2018 budget is downright tragic, in my opinion. This was said by economist Georgi Vuldzhev, from the Expert Club for Economics and Politics (EKIP), on the Boom & Bust show on Bloomberg TV Bulgaria with hosts Vladimir Sirkarov and Kuzman …

Six years after the enthusiastic beginning, EKIP is in a new phase of its development. In 2011, we started as a blog of young economists, political scientists, lawyers, as a gathering place for the ideas of future policy experts. Today, they are already actively participating in discussions about the shape of the market, the state and the economic future of the country…