Recent pre-election debates in Bulgarian media have left many people with the impression that the flat income tax is probably the most important “problem” to be solved by the new government. Whether to keep it or to introduce a tax-exempt...
October 21, 2014 9:01 am / 8 comments
“Our clients are dear to us.”
An ad by Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB)
on Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), July 7, 2014
“While credit growth remains low, the system is stable and liquid, with banks’ non-performing loans buffered...
July 9, 2014 5:59 pm / 37 comments
Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
The article is based on a discussions held in Sofia on 22 April, 2014 and organized by the Institute for Market Economics and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, in cooperation with the Libertarian club at the Sofia University....
July 4, 2014 9:48 am / no comments
The article is based on a discussions held in Sofia on 19 March, 2014 and organized by the Institute for Market Economics and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, in cooperation with the Libertarian club at UNWE. The text reflects the views of...
May 16, 2014 11:53 pm / no comments
Back in late 2012, the European Commission put forward the notion of reindustrializing Europe. The main goal of that policy is to increase the industrial sector’s share in the European economy from 15.6% in 2012 to 20% in 2020. The target...
March 27, 2014 5:53 pm / 9 comments
Between 9th and 14th of February 2014 4liberty.eu network representatives took part in FNST Visit Program in Brussels, Stuttgart and Berlin. The aim of the program was to create the space for dialogue between liberals from think tanks from Central...
February 25, 2014 2:18 pm / 2 comments
On October 25, law and history students occupied the main building of the Sofia University, one of the city’s landmarks. The reason: their professor, country’s Constitutional Court chairman, did not show up for a lecture after...
December 30, 2013 12:47 pm / 1 comment
Introduction
The 10% flat income tax was introduced in Bulgaria in 2008, and the Institute for Market Economics (IME) was one of the major proponents of its implementation. In our opinion, the introduction of the flat tax has been one of the...
December 30, 2013 12:33 pm / 30 comments
Rising youth unemployment in Europe has been a widely discussed issue over the last few years. Although millions of euros have been spent on youth employment programs, the result of these has been limited, to say the least.
One of the main reasons...
October 15, 2013 11:42 pm / no comments
As of July 25 it has been 42 days of protests in Bulgaria and it seems like not a step of progress has been made on the quest for political integrity. Just a few weeks after the new Oresharski government took office and less than four months...
July 28, 2013 8:29 pm / 1 comment