On July 3, the Institute for Мarket Еconomics (IME) presented its analysis on the condition of “Bulgarian Posts” in the context of liberalization of postal services in the EU and Bulgaria. The round table took place at the “Sofia”...
July 16, 2012 11:10 am / 2 comments
In June of 2012 the newly elected Slovak government finally unveiled first official blueprint of highly rummored consolidating measures. The main objective is continuation of cutting the fiscal deficit below 3% of GDP until 2013. Although we...
July 11, 2012 2:17 pm / 2 comments
The regularly conducted monthly opinion typically provide information such as power relations between parties but they rarely reveal anything about how the voters’ behaviour, values and attitudes have changed. Thus, in our newest analysis...
July 9, 2012 2:06 pm / no comments
Report Reaffirms Direct Relationship Between Property Rights and Economic Development
No Sensible Improvement in Bulgaria
2012 International Property Rights Index ranks 130 nations, 97 percent of world’s GDP
Sofia – Institute for Market...
July 4, 2012 12:02 pm / 1 comment
The current soap opera is far from being wrapped up by the bailout for Spain. We’re only at the 44th episode, and the main character of the whole series – Italy – has so far only been flitting furtively through the background.
If you...
July 2, 2012 10:34 am / 1 comment
There is a great wave of discussion on pension reform being implemented by the government in Poland. The essential reform, forced by sad demographic factors. However, we discuss too little the so-called “other side of the coin”, through...
June 28, 2012 11:45 am / no comments
In March 2010, when the Greek debt crisis was heating up, then-ECB president Jean Claude Trichet declared to the EU parliament that the “monetary Union in Europe is far more than a monetary arrangement. It is a union of shared destiny”....
June 25, 2012 1:37 pm / no comments
The current Fundamental Law of of Hungary was adopted over a year ago, in April 2011. Due to this anniversary the recent research of Republikon Institution has looked how the so called ’National Avowal ’preamble fits the constitution’s...
June 20, 2012 10:48 am / 7 comments
Tax Freedom Day that is calculated and promoted by Liberalni Institut every year in the Czech Republic, was celebrated on Saturday, 9th June 2012. This result indicates six-day improvement compared to the last year, i.e. the Czech taxpayers...
June 13, 2012 10:29 am / 3 comments
The European Central Bank (ECB) published its Convergence Report(2012), in which it evaluates the progress of the members states that have committed themselves to joining the euro by following the convergence criteria, better known as the “Maastricht”...
June 12, 2012 12:17 pm / 1 comment