Deprivation

The severe material deprivation of the Bulgarians over the past 30 years has become something normal, but when we have to compare ourselves with other European Union (EU) countries, the reality begins to takes on even more unpleasant dimensions. According to Eurostat, Bulgaria remains at the bottom in terms of the severe material deprivation rate.

Poor sleep causes us to crave junk food, according to a study by the University of Chicago.

Sleep deprivation increases hormones called endocannabinoids, which are associated with the "munchies". They make eating more enjoyable, but they also increase our desire for specific types of foods such as cookies, cakes and chips.

Bulgaria is first among the countries members of the EU with the highest share of people who face severe material deprivation - almost 21 percent, or 1 in 5, indicate Eurostat data for 2018.

Parliament adopted at first reading higher fines and prison sentences for poachers. They were proposed by the United Patriot's parliamentary group with amendments to the Penal Code. The project provides for illegal catches in fishing waters with nets, use of explosives, etc. of the offenders to be fined from 200 to 1000 levs. At the moment the lower threshold is 100 levs.

About 30 percent of the Bulgarian population or nearly every third Bulgarian lives in a serious risk of poverty, according to Eurostat analysis of the share of people in severe material deprivation in the EU in 2017. The EU average indicator of people living in severe material deprivation , is 6.7 per cent.

Even though April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day is still the only children's holiday in the world, it is not the same holiday of my childhood. 

Children's Day, which was first celebrated in 1927, had the aim of making orphaned and poor children of the war era happy in a festive atmosphere. Unfortunately, after so much time, we are far from making children happy. 

Some 7.2 million children in Turkey lived in households suffering from severe material deprivation in 2015, a fresh report has revealed.  

Alternate Minister for Social Solidarity Theano Fotiou on Wednesday inaugurated a special secretariat that is to focus on improving the social inclusion of the country's Roma population and tackling the poverty within the community.

A new report from the Bahçe?ehir University Center for Economic and Social Research (BETAM) has revealed that in 2014 over 7 million children lived in households which suffered from severe material deprivation in Turkey. 

A socialist MP has agreed to have her immunity from criminal prosecution lifted in relation to an ongoing probe, her party reports.

Svetla Bachvarova-Piralkova, from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), is facing up to ten years in prison if indicted and found guilty.