Society

This article is an excerpt from the new report of the EKIP "Urban Planning Policy in Sofia: Recommendations for Reform" Traffic congestion in Sofia is one of the major problems in the capital. Increased traffic is a difficult problem to solve in many places around the world, and everywhere it leads to the same negative effects that citizens, …

Voting on legislative acts takes place in a well-known, transparent manner. Behind the precise wording of all the elements of a particular law, there are forces that rarely become publicly known. They are driven by a direct interest related to the operation and scope of the legislative act. Material interest is often masked by patriotic arguments. In …

Author: Momchil Petrov An unusual protest took place in Sofia this weekend. Billed as a “Prayer March for Free Profession of Faith,” the event’s goal was to oppose the changes to the Law on Religious Denominations that were voted on in the first reading. The protest was organized by the Protestant churches in Sofia and was supported …

Guest author: Stefan Boyadzhiev Man never mounts higher than when he knows not where he is going. —Oliver Cromwell* Two weeks ago, EKIP published an article by Slavcho Marinov, which was dedicated to a critique of libertarianism. It, in turn, was the second part of the author's more general theme and idea, to …

Despite its obvious failures in the twentieth century, Marxism remains one of the most widespread political and economic ideologies of our time. Western democracies have adopted many of the principles and policies advocated by Marx and his followers, and many post-colonial developing countries have built their societies on the basis of socialist …

The love for state ownership and state economic initiatives is periodically revived. The economic effect of the activities of state-owned enterprises usually sharply contrasts with the expectations for the promotion of social justice, the reduction of inequalities, the reduction of poverty, etc. And because the devil is in the details, the assessment of the results of their functioning ...

Parks are an invention and a luxury of modern society. This is true of many things that we take for granted, but they are a direct result of the general affluence in some parts of the world, a consequence of the division of labor, of scientific progress, and in general – the opportunity to live without working every day, all day, …

Prohibitions have been part of the history of mankind since biblical times. Their emergence and public acceptance or rejection are the result of a long evolutionary process. In fact, the past abounds with examples in which attempts by state or other authorities to impose certain restrictions ended in failure. The most popular is probably the attempt to introduce …

Freedom is a supreme value. We all strive to preserve and increase it, and we are very vigilant and sensitive to any external attempts to take it away. But are we sometimes too focused on external threats to our freedom and not notice the ways in which we limit ourselves? Is there …

As a continuation of the topic of the Libertarian approach to immigration, we publish a look at one of the most interesting citizenship systems operating in our time. The Swiss model covers a significant part of the proposed reforms in the aforementioned article, with which we opened the topic in the EKIP. 1. Switzerland has two processes for obtaining citizenship. …