corruption

The belief that various economic and social problems are solved by adopting or improving special laws, regulations, and ordinances is a persistent myth. Its existence is most easily established in the conditions of an election campaign. Then all competitors offer legislative programs that should improve the lives of voters. The myth is systematically nurtured …

The short answer is because, despite all the banditry that is spreading throughout the country, for the past 12 years the government has been unwaveringly implementing the agenda of the Berlin-Brussels-Paris axis. This so-called agenda generally consists of centralization and transfer of sovereignty (so-called European integration), granting artificial competitive advantages to industries/countries with strong lobbies in Brussels …

Boyko Borissov is living out his last days as Prime Minister of Bulgaria. It cannot be said that he is doing it particularly calmly: just two hours after the end of election day, he basically scolded the other parties and ordered them to first form an expert cabinet with him, and then ...

In the photo: Prime Minister Boyko Borissov with Hans-Gert Pöttering, a politician from the CDU in Germany and chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 2010 to 2017. In the Bulgarian media space, opinions on the development of Bulgaria made by the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation [named after the first Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Germany …

Have you ever wondered how a person like Boyko Borisov can propose an agreement like the Istanbul Convention for ratification by the parliament? How did his Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva sign the IC in Turkey in 2016, his Deputy Minister of Justice Desislava Ahladova promised at a roundtable with various …

As the European Parliament elections approach this month, all the candidates are tripping over each other to explain why we should vote for them, without of course promising anything concrete. And without even directly addressing the serious topics that should be a priority in the pre-election debates. …

"On March 21, 1986, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Comrade Todor Zhivkov, accepted the resignation of Comrade Grisha Filipov from all state posts. Comrade Filipov remains a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The party will rely on his invaluable experience in the daily struggle for ...

Voting on legislative acts takes place in a well-known, transparent manner. Behind the precise wording of all the elements of a particular law, there are forces that rarely become publicly known. They are driven by a direct interest related to the operation and scope of the legislative act. Material interest is often masked by patriotic arguments. In …

This text is a translation of the article “The problem of corruption” published on Mises.org more than 16 years ago. This translation is provoked by the unwillingness to accept the thesis that the quality of the state is solely a consequence of what the people in the country in question are like. This would, for me, …

Over the past week, a stormy scandal has erupted in the media over the amendments to the Law on Privatization and Post-Privatization Control proposed by the Ataka party and supported by GERB and VMRO. Accusations have poured in from the media that the proposed amendments are completely "lobbying" aimed at protecting the financial interests of the Domuschievi brothers and Delyan Peevski in particular. The most …