Where does the road to the investment Easter start?

The economists from the initiative Bulgarian Easter often accused the former authorities of total inadequacy in attracting foreign investors and often used to give specific examples of how serious investment projects were won by other east European states, while the Bulgarian government did not even have information about them. Two months after they won the elections though, they are the ones running the state machine.

Respectively, we should search with them for the reason why Bulgaria is not on the same list with the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and even Slovakia, for which the winning of each prestigious investment project becomes a goal of the nation. In order to show a different approach to the investments, which Bulgaria needs badly, as a start it would not be bad if the new representatives of the authority investigated why they were not informed by clerks and trade attaches that two of the world's leading corporations are searching for a place in Europe to build a plant for 1.5 billion euros and Bulgaria theoretically corresponds to all the prerequisites.

The investment market in Bulgaria is a market like any other, but much more different than the market for jar caps, for example. One could sell the strongest and cheapest jar caps, but if the market does not know about that and if you yourself don't know who and where your product is wanted, then other producers with better marketing strategies will win. The difference between investments and jar caps though is that in the race for investment, thousands of clumsy, sluggish state institutions are competing. Bulgaria's Agency for Foreign Investment also counts toward this group though it behaves as an institution with a statistical function, in contrast to its Czech counterpart, which demonstrates a corporate mode of thinking and an understanding for its clients' needs. But since the people currently ruling the country set high standards with their ambitious economic program, from now on the right question for such projects for billions of dollars should not be "Do you know at all about it?" but rather "What are you going to suggest so that Bulgaria would be equal to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland?"
-Kapital

Mission working against medics

There is a discrepancy over whether the process in Libya is a world one or a Bulgarian one. The Jamahirrya wants a public trial. Bulgaria wants a quiet one. The Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi told the world in April when he was in Nigeria that in his country an AIDS trial is on, from which it is going to make a world trial. And work in this direction is underway. Until that day, there were no journalists at the court sessions - now both Bulgarian and international journalists are present. At the last trial session there were European diplomats, international observers-jurists, representatives of humanitarian and legal rights organizations from all over the world. What more would a process need to be called a world one? It became one as of this Saturday. It was high time for that.

At the same time, according to Bulgaria, it should be acted on quietly, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passi said. And there is work being done in this direction. Everyone knows that this is not his remark. This is the new type of policy - landing, landing, landing, until the storm is gone.

When one asks some minister or a diplomat what is being done for the protection of the six Bulgarian citizens, one gets the answer, "Everything which is necessary." The last measure to limit publicity from the Bulgarian side was the ban from Sofia that Bulgarian journalists should not to have access to the embassy in Tripoli - so that information would not leak.

Until Bulgarians clarify their positions at the state level, the Bulgarian diplomats in Tripoli will continue to do what they like doing most of all - to turn off the lights at 2.30pm and go fishing. This habit of the Bulgarian diplomats in the Jamahirrya has been observed for years already. It would not be bad if this habit were eradicated, so that Bulgarians would not be wondering where the world trial came from. Having such a trial is not as easy as waiting for the storm to go away, or going fishing.
-Monitor

Only fines will not do

The stringency of the Bulgarian laws is assuaged from non-obligatory abiding by them. We allow ourselves to quote once again the classic Kuzma Prudkov. This time in connection with the new, terrifying fines for drivers, which are proposed by the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications.

Their concern for the road traffic is admirable, but just fines will not do. What does a fine matter if a pack of horses comes on the highway? No matter at what speed one is driving, the clash will be lethal. This happened two weeks ago with a female U.S. citizen on the Hemus highway. The one guilty for this accident, and there were several similar accidents for half a month, is the State Road Agency. It is the institution which is supposed to maintain the roads, including the fences along the highways. The road police officers are the only ones who will be profiting from the high fines. We can assume that they as an estate will leave the middle class and will rush to the group of the richest Bulgarians.
24 Chassa