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In the fourth episode of the podcast "60 Minutes of Freedom!" Georgi Vuldjev, Stoyan Panchev and Kaloyan Pravov discuss the following topics: 0:45 - Hiring private security companies to secure small settlements - Is this a solution to the lack of security? Why can't the Ministry of Interior do its job? Is it doing …

With little public attention, considered a boutique topic, the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market will be voted on in the Council of the European Union in April. It includes the controversial Article 13, which will oblige all internet service providers to introduce mandatory filters for tracking, recognition …

Author: Steve Hanke, Forbes.com After Bulgaria escaped communism in 1990, Bulgarians experienced several hardships. The economy collapsed, there were bankruptcies, and this Balkan paradise experienced hyperinflation, reaching a staggering 242% in February 1997. Yes, on a monthly basis. Anticipating many of the problems that follow currency devaluation, I became …

Defending the position "against" Bulgaria's possible entry into the Eurozone, our editor-in-chief Georgi Vuldzhev entered into a debate with former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Nikolay Vassilev on bTV. According to Vuldzhev, the negatives of entering the Eurozone far outweigh the potential positives: If Bulgaria enters the Eurozone, which means eliminating …

Author: Bill Wertz, vocaleurope.eu The latest move by the Social Democrats and Greens in the European Parliament has called for a gradual phasing out of phosphate in doner kebabs. Or at least that’s what the headlines were saying until the Social Democrats’ wing came out with the claim that this was actually fake news. The popular Turkish dish is …

The EU Council of Ministers[1] has endorsed the European Pillar of Social Rights. The Pillar consists of 20 principles that aim to provide equal working conditions and social protection, but in essence constitute a trampling on fundamental ideas of a market economy and society. Although it does not have the force of law, the Pillar is a political …

| Full text of the opinion | Dear readers, as you know from the EQUIP, we are strictly monitoring and opposing the attempts of the Ministry of Finance to push through yet another restriction on cash payments by reducing the allowable limit for such transactions to a maximum of 5,000 leva - a proposal that is part of a draft law...

The German voter punished the two largest parties in the elections. A phenomenon like the so-called "Jamaica" coalition has never happened at the national level before. This was commented by economist Georgi Zayakov on the Investbook show on Bloomberg TV Bulgaria with host Dimitar Vuchev. "It will lead us to the fact that Germany will have a tax cut. The country is really going to …

Author: Lachezar Bogdanov, Industry Watch The openness of an economy is most often measured by the relative importance of foreign trade relative to its size. Some analyses look at the total volume of trade in goods and services relative to gross domestic product, while others focus on the relative weight of exports of goods and …