Author: Rashid Rashid I remember 2006, when I was a third-year student majoring in Ecology and Environmental Protection at the Forestry University, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was shown in our auditorium. I was under the influence of the film for several days. I was completely convinced that global warming was the thing I had been waiting to fight all my life.
More »It's time to remove the cap on cash payments
Two years after the last attempt to remove the cap on cash payments, it is time to raise the topic again. But this time, not to remove it, but to increase it, or better yet, to remove it completely. The Expert Club for Economics and Politics recently published a report, …
More »Almanac of Government Tyranny
The almanac will be a kind of collection and compendium of every government measure that violates, takes away, limits the freedoms of Bulgarian citizens. With this publication, we aim to keep our audience informed about all the restrictions on their freedoms that the government imposes. We will add new cases as soon as they are published in the State Gazette and will …
More »The problem of private pension funds
The problem with private (mandatory) pension funds is that they don't make money. More precisely, they don't make money for their clients. They probably do for themselves, but the returns that people who insure themselves with them receive are almost non-existent or even negative. At least most of the time. This is a problem. Because …
More »How can the Sofia Municipality stimulate the economic development of Sofia?
This article is an excerpt from the new report of the EKIP on urban planning policy in Sofia, authored by Georgi Vuldjev and Teodor Karakolev, which will be officially published on 06.11.2018. In recent years in Sofia, we have been lucky enough to observe a visual comparative experiment between two approaches to attracting more investment, stimulating …
More »The problem of corruption - what is it and how is it solved?
This text is a translation of the article “The problem of corruption” published on Mises.org more than 16 years ago. This translation is provoked by the unwillingness to accept the thesis that the quality of the state is solely a consequence of what the people in the country in question are like. This would, for me, …
More »How and why is the EU on the verge of destroying Internet freedom?
You may or may not have heard, but the European Union is trying for the second time this year to pass a regulation that fundamentally threatens freedom on the Internet. It is the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which updates the current legislation of the union in the field of …
More »Why does big business inevitably turn left?
Everything is shaped by the business plan of the big guys... We all remember the case of the fired Google employee who dared to state basic biological differences between men and women and how they translate into socio-behavioral differences. This act of his did not please his superiors, who did not want to …
More »Analysis of the proposed amendments to the Gambling Act and the discussion surrounding them
| Full text of the analysis | In recent months, the issue of the regulation of the gambling sector in Bulgaria, and more specifically lottery games, has emerged as an unexpectedly topical and hot topic in the public sphere. The specific reason for the rise of this topic were the proposals of the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Bulgarian National Federation of Gambling Associations, Valeri Simeonov, for the full …
More »European companies will spend €200 billion on GDPR compliance
Author: Georgi Georgiev Companies in the European Union are expected to spend around 200 billion euros to bring their personal data processing and storage procedures into line with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679). This is around 4 times the estimated GDP of Bulgaria for …
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