women in decision-making bodies to be no less than 40%. Bulgaria also promised to work to overcome gender inequality, with a deadline of 2030. According to a survey by “Nova” TV from October 2023. Out of 22,000 management positions in our country, more than 63% are held by men. The working environment is “most masculine” in public enterprises. The largest number of women are in the judiciary, and true parity between the sexes exists in territorial administrations, scientific organizations and public media.
across the EU in 2020, 8% of the population say they cannot keep their home warm enough. According to Eurostat data, in January 2022 annual inflation for energy as a whole in the EU was 27%. The price of natural gas is 40% higher than in January 2021. In some countries, this increase in gas prices was felt more strongly than others: in Belgium, prices increased by 67%, and in the Netherlands – by 58 %. Many countries have introduced subsidy schemes to reduce energy bills. At the same time, these subsidies should not remove incentives to save energy.
Nearly 39.2% of Bulgarians fail to comfortably heat their homes in winter, according to data from the European Energy Poverty Observatory. The share of the population that cannot keep their homes warm enough is the highest in the European Union. The same applies to households that cannot afford cooling in the summer – 49.5%. According to data from the European Committee of the Regions, about 11% of the population of the European Union – 54 million Europeans – are affected by energy poverty. With the Government’s recent decisions on “climate neutrality” and closing the thermal power plants, there is no prospect of solving the problem of energy poverty. An increase in the country’s credit indebtedness and/or a pension freeze with an energy poverty supplement can be expected, which is comparable to an energy genocide of the population.
development by 2030 UN member states reaffirmed their commitments regarding the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation and it is clear that the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation are inseparable from the 2030 Agenda guiding principle “Do not leave nobody aside’.
An investigation of the Water Quality Bulletin in Bulgaria from June 2023 found that Bulgarians have the greatest “chance” of all Europe to damage their health from pollutants in drinking water. An EU study conclusively proves it. Not only that – with us this danger will increase with time!
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The blue line represents the risks in 2015, the red line represents the expected risks in 2030, and the green line represents the projected risks in 2050. The table clearly shows an alarming trend: Bulgaria has significantly surpassed other countries in the “health risk” category! (While in countries such as Greece, 6.5% of the country’s population in 2015 was at risk of health problems due to poor water quality, in 2030 this percentage is expected to drop to 5.8%.)
In Bulgaria, in 2015, the health of more than 10% of the population was at risk from contaminated drinking water, in 2030, 11% of the population will be at risk, and in 2050, as many as 12%. That means that every 10th Bulgarian can get sick because of the poor quality of the water! At the same time, attention is not paid to the fact that suitability for drinking is not the same as safe for health, since its structure and memory can be affected by various methods and this effect can be harmful to a person. There are such studies, but the rulers are deaf and blind to them.
equality in school education remains a serious challenge. Poor performance in basic skills as measured by PISA (102) (47.1% in reading, 44.4% in mathematics and 46.5% in science) is twice the European average. No significant progress has been made over time.The percentage of university graduates is low. Only 33.8% of Bulgarians aged 25-34 had a higher education diploma in 2022, compared to an average of 42% in the EU. The percentage of higher education graduates in the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is one of the lowest in the EU. And the teachers are not to blame for this, but the instructions (on the recommendations of Bulgarian-phobes of all kinds) from successive Governments through the Ministry of Science and Education over the past 33 years. With such a “material”, how will innovation activity increase, how will competitive technologies and products be created, will “smart” cities be realized, will artificial intelligence be implemented?
Unanswered questions:
– Why did former and current rulers bring Bulgaria to such a state that we are forced to be ashamed of being Bulgarians?
– Don’t you feel ashamed, the Lords who rule from this with promises of a rosy future, which, as you can see, is unattainable? Or do you feel no shame because you are carrying out someone’s instructions and orders to turn Bulgaria into a territory with a marginalized people who will gradually disappear? As if the Bulgarophobes have become more than the Russophobes?
– Why, Mr. Deputies, do you not subject these assessments to a discussion in the Parliament, but try to please corporate, party and personal interests?
– Why are you, the official media, afraid (or has an information fog been lowered) to present these assessments to the population and look for those responsible for them? Because you are afraid of the culprits for the ruin of Bulgaria and exposing the false democracy that has been established in our country?
– Will the cartoonists from “Pras-Press” dare to depict the greed of the rulers as well-guarded low-faced contes have bitten a huge slice of fat, and under it the poor, ragged and emaciated Bulgarian people cannot even stand up on their broken cane, to reach the fallen crumbs?
I do not expect an answer, because it must be from people who have a sense of shame, and it is inherent in the intelligent and moral. And as a result of education and the lack of dignity, there are fewer and fewer of them in Bulgaria.
We have to wait for the new Paisius to appear and shout: “Oh foolish and foolish! Why are you ashamed to call yourself Bulgarian and don’t read… and don’t take care of your own destiny!
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