Bulgaria Ski discussion board

Zero chance of that happening given a large proportion of the population have euro denominated debt, although the economic case for it is growing stronger. The new government needs to rapidly cut expenditure to ease pressure on the current account but a standby agreement with the IMF would also help. Forget the kind of speculative pressures of the sterling ERM era as legislation has changed.

Anyway, if it does happen, expect beer to be cheaper but anything touristy to be either repriced in euro or at euro equivalent.

Time will tell, the primeminister was elected on a promise of identifying corruption within goverment and local goverment. They will try to appease the EU with rolling a few heads, to try to reinstate EU funding as there is 500m E earmarked for BG to assist in infrastructure. It is also said that the `old guard' from the previous goverment, some of whom were in the last communist goverment, will be put out to grass...
I suppose it is a positive move, if the promises are upheld...
The only problem i can see is the timescale, and the matter of the existing civil service, they have not changed to any great extent so protectionism will be rife, and the money involved is huge... Like i said, time will tell

It is strange, all the supposed mafia (mutri) interests, organised crime etc that is aimed at BG, and Dave is right, you can leave your doors open, or your car unlocked and amazingly everything is still there when you return ??? One of the largest amount of private gun ownership (official and unofficial ) yet one of the lowest levels of gun crime ??? No youth knife culture, respect for family and elders, community pride.....
Corruption exists and will need to be addressed but at least here they call it what it is, in the UK its called MP's expenses and outside interests

Hmmm. Everyone I know here has been robbed. Friends live on a new development where 3 of the 6 occupied houses were robbed inside a week earlier this year. Most people have a security system linked to vanloads of armed guards because the police are so incompetent. My car has been broken into seven times. I sleep behind five sets of locked doors, which is one less than when I lived in Africa.

Crime against the person is extremely low and I feel very safe walking the streets late at night and/or drunk - probably because lots of people carry guns. But crime against property? Its pretty bad.