Image: iStock/Getty Images Introduction In each country, the main driver of social, economic and political development is its population, so a demographic crisis is capable of destroying any potential for a better future for a society. Unfortunately, we have witnessed such a crisis in Bulgaria for decades and its effects are […]
Monthly Archives: July 2018
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Photo: AFP/ Getty images Analysing the benefits of the ‘lowest common denominator’ History shows that economic development, and the subsequent societal modernisation are strong correlates to having both a developed ‘democracy’ and a sustainable ‘rule of law’ and ‘welfare’ state. At the same time, the Bulgarian ‘transition’ can be understood as […]
Photo: bundesfinanzministerium.de How we developed, in comparison to Hungary and Germany There is, without doubt, a need for our society to conclude the Bulgarian “Transition”. An objective view of the socialist and post-socialist periods is required, in order to effectively consider the future strategies for our development. The current article […]
The forgotten figures of Bulgarian history At 3 o’clock in the morning of August 3rd 1925, flames span the wooden structure of the covered bridge over the Osam River in the town of Lovech. This was the “Bridge of Kolyu Ficheto”, built half a century earlier, and in that night […]