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Bulgaria: The richest 1% have as much wealth as the poorest 50%

Ivaylo Atanasov
Bulgaria
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The data provided by the finance ministry on income tax payments reveal the true magnitude of inequality in Bulgaria. The best-paid 1% of the population receives almost one fifth of all the income in the...

Erdoğan’s visit to Bulgaria: The sultan and the eunuchs

Pawel_Tsch
Analysis
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Erdoğan got just what he wanted from the meeting in Varna. And if the nervously grinning Borissov gave him the podium, the carte blanche to unleash his dictatorial insolence was handed to him by the...

Bulgaria’s total decay will be complete by 2040

Ivaylo Atanasov
Bulgaria
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A recent report shows that Bulgaria is at a stage of its demographic development, in which the collapse and aging of the population has reached irreversible levels. The economic consequences of this trend will be...

Bulgaria: Alarming state of the infrastructure

Kaloyan Todorov
Bulgaria
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A great deal of Bulgarian roads have not been touched since their creation in the 1970s, or have undergone a major overhaul 20 years ago. 40% of the roads in the Republican road network in...

Greece, Romania and Bulgaria still need to accomplish ”material” cooperation

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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The trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers in Buchrest has created new expectations towards the summit about the Western Balkans in Sofia and the one about the Danube Strategy in Rousse in May 2018 The...

Bulgaria discovers fanatical conservatism

Georgi Hristov
Analysis
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As with most nightmares, in the beginning it all looked like a bad joke. No sane person could have suspected that what was about to unfold was possible. But in the first days of 2018...

The pathetic battle of in-laws and cousins over the Bulgarian energy sector

Kaloyan Todorov
Bulgaria
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There is a second wave of “privatization” for a stake in the energy business. The battle is about who should take over. Varna TPP, an asset of the Czechs, was sold in a similar scheme....

Affordable education? Not for 76% of Bulgarians

Ivaylo Atanasov
Bulgaria
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School fees, enrollment, examinations, books, textbooks, journeys, meals, and any other school expenses - even the nominal free education phases of our education system are overshadowed by the extra payments, that make it difficult for...

Five years after the sacrifice of Plamen Goranov, Bulgaria is still the same

Kaloyan Todorov
Bulgaria
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A young man has died in vain and this is more, much more than a personal drama. February 20 is a date in recent Bulgarian history that cannot be overlooked. Five years ago on this...

Valentin Radomirski: I hope Bulgaria and Romania will manage to avoid being pushed into EuropeR..

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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The Barricade speaks to the former Bulgarian Ambassador in Bucharest about the Bulgarian and the Romanian presidency of the EU and about the dangers that the two countries face stemming from developments in the Black Sea...

Bulgaria: The richest 1% have as much wealth as the poorest 50%

Erdoğan’s visit to Bulgaria: The sultan and the eunuchs

Bulgaria’s total decay will be complete by 2040

Bulgaria: Alarming state of the infrastructure

Greece, Romania and Bulgaria still need to accomplish ”material” cooperation

The pathetic battle of in-laws and cousins over the Bulgarian energy sector

Affordable education? Not for 76% of Bulgarians

Five years after the sacrifice of Plamen Goranov, Bulgaria is still the same

Valentin Radomirski: I hope Bulgaria and Romania will manage to avoid being pushed into EuropeR..

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