Garvan Walshe: How a tax-revolt in Bulgaria is shaking the EU's most corrupt government

Garvan Walshe: How a tax-revolt in Bulgaria is shaking the EU's most corrupt government

Garvan Walshe is a former national and international security policy adviser to the Conservative Party. Some said they were the biggest protests since the fall of communism, or at least since the  late 1990s when Bulgaria was struck by hyperinflation (it peaked at 2000% in the year to March 1997).  They were triggered by parliamentary sharp practice by the governing coalition, which tried to sneak a new tax-raising and debt-raising budget past t…