nationalization

In connection with the political attempts to nationalize private entities in the face of private medical institutions in Bulgaria, the EKIP submitted a statement regarding a draft law that aims to oblige private hospitals to hold tenders for medicinal products within the meaning of the Public Procurement Act. The amendments proposed by a group of MPs in …

On October 12, a roundtable was held with the participation of the state, private funds, and experts, which was supposed to decide what the rules should be for paying the first pensions from the second insurance pillar, which is due to be in 2021. Or at least that's what they expected from the Association of Private Pension Funds, …

The spread of communism cannot be protected by the right to free expression. Recently, questions have been increasingly raised on domestic social networks as to whether the “innocent” victims of the totalitarian right-wing regimes in Bulgaria and around the world, who used repressive methods to save their countries from the USSR-funded …

The economic bankruptcy of socialism has long been convincingly proven by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. In the absence of private ownership of the means of production, there is no market, and without a market, money prices cannot be formed. Without prices, rational production, construction, etc. cannot be organized. Separately …

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 ...

Ivelina Y. Petrova A few days ago, the mayor of the capital's Oborishte district - Vasil Tsolov, nominated by the Reformist Bloc, proposed to nationalize the facades of buildings. According to him, the municipality will be a better steward of the mortar plaster and paint, and thus the central part of the city will acquire a Western European appearance. We see another …

For the Christmas and New Year holidays, the government decided to give us a "small" surprise. In just a week, controversial changes to the Social Security Code (SSC) were voted on without any public debate or preliminary assessment of the impact of the adopted regulatory texts. Many question marks, disappointments and future economic shocks were tried by the government ...

At the end of last year, the ruling coalition, led by the right-wing (in words) GERB party, introduced changes to the pension insurance law, which are not just not a step in the right direction, but a leap in the exact opposite. Due to the great economic importance of the negative reform, it is important to highlight some …