Outside the narrow professional circles it is unlikely that anybody knows that last week was the fifteenth anniversary since the registration of the Institute for Market Economics (IME). Many probably do not know also that after fourteen years of managing the Institute, the author is only a supervisor of its work. However, Svetla Kostadinova is already known as its director.
A relatively short period of time had passed after the local elections in Sofia, where the political status quo remain the same. Several months after the elections the mayor of Sofia decided to present his program until 2011.
There are a lot of talks recently about the shortage of labor in Bulgaria and the possible import of workers from abroad, which must fill the free job openings. It is important to clarify what causes this problem and what are the consequences from it and what could be done in order to satisfy all sides of the question.
The National Statistical Institute announced the data about the gross domestic product (GDP) during 2007, which size is EUR 28 898.1 million in current prices. These numbers are preliminary and should be revised based on the annual information. In a similar manner was revised the data for 2006 (increase in the GDP by about EUR 138 million, which increased the base for comparison when calculation the growth for 2007) and for the first three quarters of 2007.
... This which comes to attention is the number of times bills have been adopted/amended related to the collection of state fees. The list shows that 28 changes have been passed, most of which are to increase the size of the fees.
In the Constitution of Republic of Bulgaria it is written that private property is sacred. This claim was often used recently with reference to the proposed by the Council of Ministers modifications in the Bill of State Property. It came about that the rulers stand firmly behind the idea of sacredness. Simply from time to time the property would become sacred for the owner himself.