Deputies Approve Easter Supplements of 100 BGN for Pensioners Below Poverty Line
Today, deputies voted to provide Easter supplements of BGN 100 to pensioners whose pensions fall below the poverty threshold of BGN 526
The Easter holidays gave us a rare chance to navel-gaze and muse over man's inborn need to believe in resurrection and revival, to believe in good.
Only for the work week to descend upon us with a vengeance.
Yet I believe the holiday meditation can be put to good, practical use even in the hectic days ahead of us.
Easter offered us a reminder that we have to revive one of the most sacred virtues we have buried deep down inside – empathy.
Making the leap of empathy, sensitivity and commitment will make us not only better people, but also more successful as professionals and a community, will offer us a chance for revival.
True, the social revival is a much more complicated process than the revival of nature.
True, we Bulgarians are stubborn and it takes a really heavy blow, like the tough times we are going through, to learn the most important lesson – that we are all connected.
But the moral and economic falls are also connected - today's Bulgaria proves that well.
If you are sick and tired of the pompous religious terms, I suggest you go for the word "restart". The Easter revival offers the perfect timing for a restart in every way!
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