My new piece for HuffPost: Between East and West, there is already a middle way of sort. The European Union is halfway both in terms of governance and geography, combining multi-party democracy of the European nation-states, joint and partly governed by a pan-European bureaucracy that, it can be argued, has some meritocratic features. Yet, this […]
My new Moscow Times piece on the future of privatization policy and legislation in Georgia under new leadership. President Saakashvili enacted a set of laws (e.g. Law on Economic Liberty) and put in place an aggressive privatization program that made Georgia a champion/frontline experimenter in the field globally. With new leadership, the country might take a […]
Turkish Privatization Law: An introduction with Aykut Bakirci, Partner, Bezen&Partners, former Legal Counsel of Turkish Privatization Authority Privatization, in its modern sense, started in Turkey with the establishment of the Privatization Authority in 1984 by the passage of a ministerial decree and with no legislation under the auspices of the Prime Ministry. During its early years, […]
