Politics

In the mid-19th century, the French economist Frédéric Bastiat gave perhaps the most brilliant definition of what a state is. It is “the fiction by which everyone wants to live at the expense of everyone else.” At the same time, another French-speaking economist, Gustave de Molinari, wrote an article in which he questioned the state’s …

Crises expose the bones of reality, dispel the fog of political formulas and incantations. We usually spend the dramatic moments that have come into the public spotlight, separated from the real events in a fabricated version of the true facts. Effigies smeared with lipstick and adorned with sequins, we wage our ritual battles in front of the media cameras, …

On Monday, during his visit to Poland, French President Emmanuel Macron made statements that scandalized the Bulgarian public. Macron said bluntly that the admission of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union was "hasty", thereby directly questioning our place in the so-called European community. Let's not …

Today, all media outlets exploded with the news that the leader of the Women GERB party and former regional governor of Pernik, Irena Sokolova, was arrested during a raid by the prosecutor's office in connection with the water crisis in the city. Meanwhile, the Minister of Environment and Water, Neno Dimov, was also detained after special forces …

The yellow-paved ideological bubble is jumping through the phases of change significantly faster than the rest of the country. We can explain this with a simple interpretation of Maslow's pyramid, in which materially satisfied millennials have climbed much higher than village grandmothers. Even more so with open access to waves of new information about …

To answer this question, we must first answer the opposite - what are the great successes of the Transition? Because, somewhat paradoxically, its greatest successes also contain its greatest failures. The Transition in Bulgaria actually occurred only in 1997, after a period of severe economic cataclysm. The fact that ...

To Mr. Krasen Kralev, To Mr. Borislav Mihaylov, To prime ministers, popes, patriarchs, To media, journalists, oligarchs, To the proud, sleeping Bulgarian people. After an evening like this one on Monday, words come more difficult than sleep. Once again we have seen how sport can reflect the state of an entire country. Is it …

The almanac will be a kind of collection and compendium of every government measure that violates, takes away, limits the freedoms of Bulgarian citizens. With this publication, we aim to keep our audience informed about all the restrictions on their freedoms that the government imposes. We will add new cases as soon as they are published in the State Gazette and will …

Europe is preparing for a new five-year cycle in which it must deal with many internal and external challenges. On the one hand, the US and China are huge economic competitors to the EU due to their greater business freedom (US) and resources (China), and on the other hand, Russian military power and strategic interests also …

In May, the participation of the experts from the EKIP was related to topics such as joining the eurozone, Tax Freedom Day, the European elections, social policy and others. On May 18, we celebrated Tax Freedom Day. This year, the Bulgarian Libertarian Society organized a kind of celebration of the holiday - treated with beer more …