Society

Part 1 of a series on local referendums against investment projects in Bulgaria - their causes and consequences: Autumn has come and the topic of local referendums will become relevant again. This is not a forecast, but simply the logic of the social processes in our country over the past 2 years. And this is an occasion to look …

Author: Kaloyan Staykov In mid-August, the government published for public discussion warmed-up proposals for reform of the drug policy, with the focus on improving access to medicinal products in the country. The problem with access arises mainly for two reasons: parallel export[1] – it is envisaged to create a restrictive list of medicines whose export can be …

About Karin Dom or how a children's center for children with special needs in Varna works on the border of private charity The maxim repeated over the years states that the level of development of a society can be judged by its attitude towards the vulnerable. In Bulgarian reality, however, this role of …

Author: Filip Petrov The news of a publishing house printing two editions of a textbook – color and black and white – was circulating in the media. The mass indignation that various populists expressed was that this was bad – fueling the division between poor and rich in schools. Let’s think more seriously about the issue…

Author: Yavor Ganchev Most people will answer in the affirmative, and some will also quote Art. 53(2) of the Constitution: "School education up to the age of 16 is compulsory" Most people do not even notice that it is not about education, but about "school education". This is so because for most people - and with ...

This month, the latest edition of the Cato Institute’s Human Freedom Index in Washington, D.C., was published. According to this edition, which is based on data from 2014, Bulgaria’s human freedom index score is 7.86, a slight improvement over last year’s level of 7.80. …

Author: Mariola Yankova The question of whether animals have rights and whether this fact does not make us humans criminals has never been more relevant. Activists periodically appear both in Bulgaria and in other Western countries and the USA, who use the rhetoric of rights to urge us to stop consuming …

Adam Ozimek, Forbes.com Note: This article is about the TV show Game of Thrones and contains spoilers. Westeros’ technological and economic development seems to have been frozen for a very long time. Bran the Builder built Winterfell and the Wall about 8,000 years ago, suggesting that the same medieval building technologies were in place back then. …

When you don't understand something - read it a second time, if you still don't understand it - read it several times until you get it. If that doesn't work - start criticizing what you didn't understand or at best the little you did understand. This article is a response to the review of …

Author: Yavor Ganchev This commentary is an analysis of the government's program in the field of education for the period 2017-2021, published on 02.08.2017 on the website of the Council of Ministers here. An equal sign is put between staying in school and receiving an education One of the first measures to be implemented (340 and 341), …