Bulgaria

Author: Vladislav Apostolov Year 2045. Elon Musk's seventeenth son is heading to Mars to attend the opening of the largest and most powerful computing center in the solar system. The flight is from the spaceport in Greenland, and during the trip the boy will watch the first film of this decade, made …

The last five years have flown by quickly, and although so much has happened globally, in Bulgaria, nothing significant has happened. The world will remember 2020 with the ongoing coronavirus, the restrictions on social life and free movement. Personally, I would like 2020 to be remembered in Bulgaria and …

Two years after the official introduction of the euro in the country, Croatia continues to have problems with the growth of retail prices; Before the introduction of the euro in Croatia, prices there were on average higher than in Bulgaria. After the adoption of the euro, this difference not only persisted, but prices in Croatia began to grow …

Idea and methodological note The purpose of this analysis is to examine the inflationary trends of the products that make up the traditional festive table in Bulgaria for Christmas Eve and Christmas. The data used provide an idea of the price movements in different categories of food and beverages, which are an integral part of the festive atmosphere. The methodology is based on …

The concentration of seven consecutive elections and the record failure in the vote for president require a short correspondence with structuralist analysis. To refresh the memory. At the heart of the political crisis lies the combination of two faults (cleavage - for political scientists from the NBU and the Faculty of Philosophy), represented through the party groups in the National Assembly. The first is ...

|Read the full text of the analysis at this link| The analysis examines the challenges of access to medicines for the treatment of rheumatic diseases and the associated socio-economic consequences in Bulgaria. Based on data on the number of health insured persons, the costs of outpatient and clinical procedures, as well as the number of lost working days, we highlight …

Only 22% or just over one-fifth of Bulgarians save. Of these one million and two hundred thousand people, only 37% save monthly. Bulgarians save mainly for emergencies (68%) and vacations and excursions (42%). Only then do savers prioritize long-term accumulation of value – …

Recently, the topic of public procurement of medicines at private medical institutions has once again gained media coverage. With the start of the new political season, internal pressure for action has increased, and the influence of the European Commission remains unsubstantiated and creates the feeling of dubious goals and double standards. This naturally leaves an interesting aftertaste …

| Full text of the analysis | Bulgaria introduced the rules for imposing a global minimum tax on large multinational and national groups of enterprises at the very end of 2023. This happened after the traditional long delay in the Bulgarian legislative process, lack of open public discussion and changes in the voted texts "on ...

GERB is swallowing PP-DB like a boa constrictor – bite by bite – Kostadin Kostadinov flowerily expressed himself during the unfortunate negotiations for the rotation of the assembly. Pointing us to a half-forgotten trope from the coalition past of Boris’s party stating that whoever governs with GERB remains a historical footnote – Reformist Bloc, …