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Тези дни този аргумент някак спонтанно набира сила като критика на предложените промени в Закон за защита на конкуренцията (ЗКК) и Закон за защита на потребителите (ЗЗП), които целят да адресират дисбалансите в търговията на дребно. Импликацията е, че понеже са ниски маржовете на печалба (не повече от 5% нетен …

In an attempt to viciously defend the thesis that private hospitals must conduct public procurement because they are “public law organizations” according to the Public Procurement Act and Directive 2014/24, the IME misinterprets the practice of the CJEU and conveniently omits the only comprehensive analysis of its kind in Bulgaria by the EKIP on the topic. We cut stones because we build, …

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirms the current definition of a “public body” in Bulgarian law. As a result, European law does not require the inclusion of private medical institutions in the scope of the public procurement regime. The reasoned ruling of the CJEU emphasizes the right of Bulgaria to adapt its legislation to its needs and local specificities. …

The April 1876 uprising is a landmark event in Bulgarian history. The motives for it lie in the dissatisfaction of some of the Bulgarians of the time with the Ottoman state power. The history of the uprising is often misused, but there are two neglected and important aspects in it. First of all: it covered settlements with …

Original article: Ryan McMaken, mises.org The condemnation of consumerism is ubiquitous in modern media and popular culture. Anyone who has seen “A Charlie Brown Christmas” from 1965 knows about this struggle. Every time we see Charlie Brown opt for the “authentic” Christmas – buying himself a small Christmas tree, which is natural, …

The big economic problem the world faces is linguistic semantics. The word “regulation” is now understood to mean “government regulation.” We are unaware of the alternative: consumer regulation. This is a problem because we accept so much government intervention, when in fact we would be better off without it. We demand some kind of regulation with …

On October 9, 2002, in its annual report, the European Commission recognized Bulgaria as a country with a functioning market economy. According to the EC's assessment, Bulgaria's progress in economic terms strengthened its position in the negotiations for membership in the European Union. Mainly thanks to this progress, five years later, in 2007 …

As elections approach and the state-funded (by us taxpayers) parties' appearances fill the airwaves and pages of the media, rationally ignorant voters wake up from their slumber and begin to look for their option at the ballot box. A little earlier, people like me and my colleagues in BLO and EKIP, as well as others in …

Kuzman Iliev States hate Uber and try to hinder the company by restricting, punishing or removing it from the market. Always and everywhere. But why is this prominent representative of the so-called "sharing economy" a thorn in the side of the French, Belgian, Bulgarian and generally conceptually every government? What does it threaten them with...

Yesterday it became clear that the Supreme Administrative Court upheld the decision of the Commission for the Protection of Competition to impose a fine of 200,000 leva on the company Uber, as well as to prohibit it from practicing its activities in its current form. The decision was made on the basis of Art. 29 of the Protection of …