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  Corporate Social Responsibility of Bulgarian Banking Sector – Mission and Business Practice

  As a consequence of legal regulation, the organization of bank activity and established traditions, society often treats commercial banks only as subjects, absorbing and redistributing monetary resources in order to obtain financial advantage which benefits both banks and their owners. However, a similar perception is not applicable to the vision ... As a consequence of legal regulation, the organization of bank activity and established traditions, society often treats commercial banks only as subjects, absorbing and redistributing monetary resources in order to obtain financial advantage which benefits both banks and their owners. However, a similar perception is not applicable to the vision of modern banks which demonstrate aspirations of harmony with the surrounding socio-economic environment and a desire to improve their image in the corporate community. In this respect, corporate social responsibility of banks is a way to voluntarily integrate their business into national and international processes.

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  Specifics of Mutual Cooperation

  This article aims at delineating the specifics and the distinctions between mutual cooperative insurance societies, cooperatives (regulated by the general Cooperatives Act) and housing associations (regulated by the Housing Associations Act) by using benchmark analysis. This is achieved through following the historical development of the legal ... This article aims at delineating the specifics and the distinctions between mutual cooperative insurance societies, cooperatives (regulated by the general Cooperatives Act) and housing associations (regulated by the Housing Associations Act) by using benchmark analysis. This is achieved through following the historical development of the legal framework in the field.

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  Tools of the Contemporary Protectionist Policy of the European Union

  Despite the triumphal march of economic globalization, whose main characteristic is trade liberalization, countries and supranational integration formations have not abandoned, but improved the regulatory effects on international trade. The most decisive in the conduct of protectionist policy has been, in no small part, to continue to be the ... Despite the triumphal march of economic globalization, whose main characteristic is trade liberalization, countries and supranational integration formations have not abandoned, but improved the regulatory effects on international trade. The most decisive in the conduct of protectionist policy has been, in no small part, to continue to be the leaders of economic and technological dynamism - the USA, Japan and the European Community. The paper discusses the basic measures that protectionism is applied in practice: import licensing arrangements; duties with higher rates; import quotas; MIPs; minimum duties; additional duties and / or import taxes; import bans; dumping and countervailing duties. Conclusion, that contemporary forms and manifestations of these traditional instruments to mitigate foreign goods competition in favor of taking local farms are united in a common term “neoprotectionism”, has been reached.