pandemic

Yesterday (Wednesday, April 1) the government announced its desire to extend the state of emergency by another month until May 13. Alas, this was not an April Fool's joke. And judging by the statements made by government representatives, this means maintaining all currently in force quarantine and combat measures ...

The COVID-19 epidemic in Bulgaria is developing. Speculation about whether it is in its beginning, middle and end should be left aside, as the main goal at the moment should be to minimize the risk of the widespread spread of the virus. Even now, predictions about its development are …

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English economist whose name is associated with an influential theory. He argued that if there are no limitations on resources, population increases in geometric progression. The doubling period is 25 years. Over the same period, food supplies increase in arithmetic progression. This results in a severe …

The administration's inaction is stifling even that which could work... Everyone is discussing the taxpayers' money, which the government these days said it would return to some of them after collecting it from everyone. Both the discussion and the government's actions are normal - within some framework of public decency. No...

Crises expose the bones of reality, dispel the fog of political formulas and incantations. We usually spend the dramatic moments that have come into the public spotlight, separated from the real events in a fabricated version of the true facts. Effigies smeared with lipstick and adorned with sequins, we wage our ritual battles in front of the media cameras, …

After the purely health measures aimed at protecting the health of Bulgarian citizens in the current Covid-19 pandemic, the next package of measures that it will have to take are purely financial. The pandemic is causing huge economic damage, with Europe being the most affected, given the massive spread of the virus in some of the most fragile …