corruption

The joint participation of state and private capital in economic initiatives has long been a familiar practice. The reasons and conditions under which it is implemented are different. Historical experience in Bulgaria shows that the results of such "cooperation" are questionable. However, this is not all. In fact, cooperation degenerates into mutual deception between private ...

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0:40 - Stoyan Panchev on Tom Woods' podcast and other news related to our podcast. 05:05 - What are the dangers of the proposed changes to the Criminal Code? Should "private" corruption be treated the same way as "state" corruption? Should the prosecutor's office have the ability to intervene in completely …

00:45 - The showy arrest of the mayor of "Mladost" Desislava Ivancheva. Is she really guilty? What do we know about her? What did she do as mayor of Mladost and are the numerous accusations of corruption and incompetence true? 23:10 - What could be the consequences for the reputation of the new coalition "Democratic Bulgaria", in ...

 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 ...

What happens when a country has a limited public resource for healthcare that has no clear owner? Quite simply – it is distributed according to the needs of certain market players, and the entire system starts bidding for a piece of it. What happens? This is also the case with …

Bulgarian economic history cannot provide a universally valid answer to this question, but it can suggest in which direction to look. Therefore, it is worth paying a little attention to some of the supposedly “generally accepted” truths about Bulgaria’s economic past. Among them, one can point out the almost axiomatic statement that the economic …

The work with my beloved Pirin has predictably become boring, so it needs to be commented on again. We humans love the light and fear the darkness. We associate it with the unknown, the unfamiliar, evil. Monsters are born in our imagination there. Well, it's the same in business. What do the large mass of protesters want for Pirin? …

Author: Alexander Mihaylov Let's imagine for a moment that I am a senior civil servant, in some state agency I am the deputy assistant director. My position puts me in a position in which I have access to the levers of power through which I can do someone a favor, in order to …