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The government has slowly sold off anything good in Bulgaria, water facilities, power plants etc. It's sad to see such a beautiful country in decline. I can say

• ur-whale 6y ago
  Sold off to whom?
  • 082349872349872 6y ago
    to the олигарси? My outside impression of EE common wisdom last century: 1980's: hmm, maybe the capitalists were right about the communists all along. 1990's: hmm, maybe the communists were right about the capitalists all along. homo homini lupus Edit: for the downvoters, what is incorrect? I did state it was an "outside impression," and therefore would appreciate factual correction from people who were there, so I can update my models. As one can tell from the latin phrase, it's been a reasonable maximum entropy estimate for at least the last couple of thousand years (and probably even the last fifty thousand). Someone who actually speaks bulgarian can probably easily find a much better source, I tried "списък с български олигарси" and got: https://anonybulgaria.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/олигарси-в-българия/ https://anonybulgaria.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/олигарси-в-бъ... which probably has a few specific answers to ur-whale's original question, "to whom?"
  • masklinn 6y ago
    Private interests, both inside the country and multinationals? The EU's promotion of privatisation is probably its biggest drawback. Here's hoping the UK's departure will reverse that trend. As of early 2018 the EU was still mostly on the "privatise all the things" train though, sadly.