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What is the problem with medicines? The problems in Bulgarian healthcare are not only with medicines. The problem of the entire system is actually the inefficient spending of funds, which is getting worse every year. The second problem is that since the establishment of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) until today, its budget has been growing by an average of about 7% per …

Daniel Angelov I recently participated in a student essay competition about Bulgaria and its membership in the European Union. Almost all the participants, to my great regret, were like a gramophone record and emphasized how we are the poorest and most corrupt country (and I was left with the impression that we are almost the DPRK of …

Author: Rositsa Garcheva There is only one day left until the first round of the presidential elections in France. On April 23, 47 million voters will give their preference to one of the 11 candidates, because in French politics the maxim applies: “In the first round – you elect, in the second – you eliminate”. That is, all eleven have their own greater …

For many people, mostly with more left-wing ideological views, the past year was bad and even scandalous because of Donald Trump and Brexit. However, neither Trump has begun his reign, nor Brexit is a fact, so there is no need for hasty conclusions and mass hysteria. Quite the opposite – the focus should be on …

Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe for the Polish weekly Najwyższy Czas! What is your assessment of contemporary Western Europe and the EU in particular? All political parties in Western Europe, regardless of their different names and programs, gravitate around the fundamental idea of democratic socialism. They use elections to legitimize the taxation of the productive parts of …

The events surrounding and especially after Brexit have once again brought to the forefront the fundamental debate about what the right "recipe" for the European Union is – is a Europe of nation states better than a united and centralized Europe? On one side of this argument stand the Eurosceptic nationalist movements of the Old Continent – UKIP, …

The focus of media and politicians in recent weeks and months has been the so-called “refugee crisis” in the EU. Whether they view it as a “wave of Islamization in Europe,” as many on the right do, or as a “humanitarian crisis,” as many on the left interpret the events, most …

In the last few weeks, there has been a lot of buzz in the European media about the proposal by Angela Merkel and François Hollande to harmonize corporate taxes in the European Union. The specific idea is to introduce a minimum tax rate that all EU member states are required to implement (a detailed plan for this is expected …

Undoubtedly the most important event on the European political scene at the end of January was the decisive victory of the far-left party SYRIZA in the early parliamentary elections in Greece. Although it fell two seats short of an outright majority, the equally extremist (but at the other end of the spectrum) Independents came to the rescue.