corruption

The pretty lady in the photo is Vera Jourova, member of the European Commission responsible for justice. Under her supervision, so to speak, is the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, in which Bulgaria and Romania agreed to participate in order to join the European Union in 2007. Within the framework of this same mechanism …

In just a few days, the official election campaign will begin. Smiling and presentable party members will pour out promises of a bright future, solutions to every problem, a new child for every grandmother and… media vouchers. We decided to write a few lines about them, provoked by an incident on Facebook, which we became unwitting witnesses to. Yesterday (22.02) in …

The article talks about a real Bulgarian municipality and the incident is based on real and public data. We will call it “municipality X”, due to the fact that neither the name of the municipality nor the medical team working on its territory should be discredited. The article will present the state of …

How Qatar is buying up part of the French political class. Look at this Old Europe, which invented a “Cooperation and Verification Mechanism” to criticize and teach backward Eastern Europeans about democracy and Euro-Atlantic values. On October 20, 2016, a scandalous book with the intriguing title “Our Very Dear …

It is true that in recent years people have dared to do business, the shootouts in the center of Sofia have long been forgotten, and shady deals seem to be disappearing (or simply being more skillfully concealed). However, is corruption in Bulgaria a fading phenomenon? Although such a development has been a long-standing dream, its implementation is still …

With its decision on April 4 to adopt amendments to the Energy Law in the first reading in parliament, Bulgaria has proven in practice that it is trying to be Russia's "Trojan horse" in the European Union. The changes to the energy legislation effectively remove Bulgaria's obligations to comply with Directive 2009/73/EC...

For the past ten days, all eyes have been on Ukraine. And while the media has been discussing various political issues at length – the claims to power of the president who fled the country, the various moves of the opposition that took power, and the very real possibility that Crimea could secede from Kiev and (possibly) return to …

“Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.” Transparency International Corruption is a problem. Although it seems quite logical, this statement raises controversy among economists, since it is difficult to determine exactly in what form corruption manifests itself and by what mechanism it affects economic activity. …