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Guest author: Martin Nikolaev From fines for patent leather bags to a political bludgeon Until a month ago, the Competition Protection Commission was known as just one of the many useless state institutions, mainly dealing with fining online stores and women's boutiques for uncompetitively pampering Bulgarian girls with a bonus leather bag...

02:10 - Nord Stream and Belene NPP 31:30 - The Italian "parallel currency" and the return of the crisis in the Eurozone Links: The revival of the Belene NPP The three big myths about the Belene NPP What did they say and what did we understand about the Belene NPP? Belene NPP: The unnecessary energy project that refuses to die What is the "parallel …

Author: Kaloyan Staykov The regulatory authorities in Bulgaria seem doomed to remain dependent. This is the brief conclusion of the behavior of a number of politicians in recent months, and this week the Ombudsman joined them. The latest proposal is that citizens should have the opportunity to appeal in court the decisions of the Commission for Energy and …

 0:50 - The government's persistent attempts to revive the Belene NPP project - What are the latest news? What is the idea behind the Prime Minister's proposal that the Belene NPP be a "pan-Balkan" project? Do we need the Belene NPP? Is it possible to implement it on a fully market basis? What will be the consequences …

After a week of media drama, accusations, speculation, doubts, threats and scandals, the saga "Ginka Varbakova and the sale of CEZ" seems to have found its very unpleasant ending. The government officially announced that it will try to acquire a "controlling stake" in CEZ Bulgaria. In other words, the government wants to become the de facto controlling owner ...

In the second episode of "60 Minutes of Freedom", the founder of the Bulgarian Libertarian Society and EQUIP Stoyan Panchev, together with the editor-in-chief Georgi Vuldjev and the political expert Kaloyan Pravov, focus entirely on the scandal surrounding the sale of the Bulgarian assets of the Czech energy company CEZ. In the episode you will hear: - What a …

Authors: Georgi Vuldzhev, Emil Valkov This commentary is an analysis of the government's programs in the field of economy, energy, transport and tourism for the period 2017-2021, published on 02.08.2017 on the website of the Council of Ministers here. Economy: (Georgi Vuldzhev) The first priority in the government program in the "economy" sector is the removal of the administrative burden for business ...

Guest author: Krasen Stanchev Here's what I had to comment on the sighs of an old friend... The calculations for the resources of humanity on the occasion of August 2 are not just incorrect, dear Petko (Simeonov), but they are also incorrectly conceived, calculated and explained. From the "Club of Rome" to now, the resources have "run out" of about ...

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 …

A specter has been haunting the Bulgarian political space lately. The specter of the supposedly suspended Belene NPP project. Although it was suspended in 2012, as anyone who has followed the developments in recent months knows, some of the equipment needed for the construction of the new nuclear power plant is already on its way to Bulgaria, …