"As long as the right is led by Boyko Borisov, it has no chance to rise" ~ Ivan Kostov A threat of institutional death has loomed over all possible coalition partners of the new leading force in the person of "We Continue the Change". Slavi Trifonov's people are pushed into a corner by their political failures and contradictions. The Socialists must ...
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I recently read this article, written by a member of the UDF. The author reflects on the question of who the “right” can unite with, in particular the UDF. The article reads like a manifesto of powerlessness. The currently fragmented “right” is not a significant enough factor, even if it manages to unite itself, without …
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In connection with the upcoming parliamentary elections, EKIP decided to evaluate the election party programs of some of the more important players. We chose the traditional major parties along with most of the smaller parties, which according to sociological surveys have a chance of overcoming the 1% barrier that entitles them to state subsidies. In view of the profile …
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DSB Chairman Radan Kanev announced a few days ago that he is preparing to create a new right-wing political project. According to Kanev, the Reformist Bloc has exhausted its potential, deviated from the right-wing idea and failed in its set goals. That is why he needs a new party to take his place …
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The last few days of political (and public) life have been quite intense and tense. As is well known, the National Assembly did not adopt the most important elements of the changes to the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria, proposed by the now former Minister of Justice Hristo Ivanov and supported by the Reformist Bloc. Instead, they were voted …
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"Economic growth" has become one of the most overused mantras these days and serves as a justification for almost every inefficient government spending, government intervention in market relations, or favoritism for businesses close to power. All parties — except one — comment at length in their programs on the recipes for how …
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The material is a continuation of THIS ARTICLE Third, considering this obvious truth, we can also explain the apparent success of state investment in South Korea. The intervention of the state to invest simply coincided with a period of increased self-awareness of many people as economic actors, a growing desire in society for more …
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“I am right-wing, but when it comes to investments, I don’t see a solution on the right. If a factory needs to be built in a place like Macedonia, for example, you can’t just rely on economic freedom and low taxes. Even if taxes were zero in Macedonia, investors would want to invest…
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