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The Constitutional Court cut off half of Slavi Trifonov's referendum, and the very next morning the TV presenter hinted for the first time about entering politics. As we already wrote a month ago, this was completely predictable - Slavi's political bid goes through a politically cut or truncated referendum, and not through a successful or ...

In recent days, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, the proxy media and GERB proxy analysts have begun to promote the thesis that Slavi Trifonov cannot remain on the air if he continues with his political requests. Unsurprisingly, the PIK news agency was one of the most active, with its owner renewing his attacks on Trifonov. Here are two …

In public choice theory (which became particularly popular after the Nobel Prize for one of its founders, James Buchanan), there is talk of the so-called "rational ignorance". It is a situation in which the expenditure of resources (time, attention, effort, etc.) required for a person to become informed on a given issue exceeds the potential benefit of learning ...

About 10 days ago, it became clear to the general public that the government would issue new external debt worth 8.1 billion euros (16 billion leva) in the form of bonds within the period 2015-2017. This news polarized commentators and the public into two camps: defenders of the debt (mainly "right-wing" analysts and ...

At the end of last year, GERB announced its intention to initiate a program for free renovation of EPK blocks with more than 36 apartments. Today, a few months later, despite the obvious problems and the lack of quality planning, the program is a fact and is already in its initial stage. For a large part of the citizens, …

At the end of last year, the ruling coalition, led by the right-wing (in words) GERB party, introduced changes to the pension insurance law, which are not just not a step in the right direction, but a leap in the exact opposite. Due to the great economic importance of the negative reform, it is important to highlight some …

For those familiar with the nature and history of major political movements in the US and UK, it is clear that one of the main elements of what is considered the “right” is the so-called fiscal conservatism. The idea that the state apparatus should (at a minimum) spend as much as it can collect through the tax system, and …

On July 17, in one of the smaller halls of the Balkan Hotel (former Sheraton) in the center of the capital, a conference was held under the title "Social Policy for Growth - the Right Path", organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, affiliated with Mrs. Merkel's party in Germany. The main idea of the event, as explained by the hosts, is ...