The national plan under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility is a major topic of discussion in both the new Bulgarian parliament and the excited post-election public sphere. The facility is just one part of the €750 billion Next Generation EU package (nearly half in the form of loans) born out of the pandemic, …
More »Are we playing against ourselves when we give up economic freedoms? - Part I
The lack of a moral compass is a correctable evil. The ability of a person to develop and make mistakes, without this being accepted as his only and final state, helps us develop as people and as individuals. However, in order to continue to develop, we must take on …
More »Let's talk about democracy and preference
After midnight parliamentary dramas, we woke up to yet another change in the electoral legislation, seemingly inspired and pushed through by the MRF. On the one hand, this is another lesson for small urban parties about how much power a small political force can wield without interfering with GERB, on the other hand, it is an opportunity …
More »Ep. 37: GERB fights "psychological violence" through whistleblowing
Conversation with psychologist Yanko Boyadzhiev - 4:39 Conversation with lawyer Zhoro Mishev - 34:45 Answers to our donors' questions - 47:49 Links: GERB's proposals Decentralization according to IME Event of "Millennium Club" For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the audio of the podcast by clicking on the "Download" button in ...
More »Urban planning policy in Sofia: Recommendations for reform
| Full text of the report | In recent years, urban planning issues in Sofia have become a particularly topical and politically heated topic in the public sphere. Our new report aims to present our vision of the reforms that urban planning policy in Sofia needs in order to improve its quality …
More »Cities have always had their squares and green spaces.
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, …
More »Applying for Swiss citizenship in 2018 – a libertarian perspective
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. …
More »Ep. 31: EU vs. Hungary with Georgi Vuldjev
Links: The report criticizing Hungary Is Orban right-wing? For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the audio of the podcast by clicking the “Download” button in the player above. Don’t forget to like and share on Facebook and write a comment with your opinion and/or criticism about this episode! So …
More »Anarcho-capitalism with a human face: How does Anarchism sell?
This article is a continuation of Anarcho-Capitalism with a Human Face: Technology and Decentralization Diplomacy as a Macrocosm of Anarchist Relationships With all these definitions, we cannot help but come to the conclusion that anarchy does exist in one sphere of our affairs – international relations. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin live in a state of …
More »Anarcho-capitalism with a human face: Technology and decentralization
Radical decentralization and anarchy are the same thing Anarcho-capitalism has a PR problem. Its main postulate – the principle of non-aggression sounds simple and noble enough to be understood by anyone and may even be a basic principle of the libertarian movement itself. But when it comes to private courts, most …
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