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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Photo: Club Z “The Transition” since 1989… To some, it brings hope fora better, more democratic future. To others, it gives reason to mourn socialism. To some “the Transition” is a real chance to make it. To others, it is a lie and a deception. Reason to rectify past mistakes… […]
The Bulgarian ‘institutional transition’ ended at some point between 2001 and 2007, prior to joining the European Union. The change of ‘institutions’ – in the form of formal society rules – towards both a market economy, and a multi-party parliamentary democracy, was completed. We had, at this point, accomplished the […]