Two weeks ago I wrote how I counted 28 billboards in a short stretch of Sofia. Most of them advertised gambling, which is prohibited by law. A law that no one seems to respect and no one enforces. Like many others before me, I wondered how this was possible. The National Revenue Agency has apologized in the past that these were not exactly gambling advertisements, and they did not know where and how many billboards there actually were. That is w…
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Two weeks ago I wrote how I counted 28 billboards in a short stretch of Sofia. Most of them advertised gambling, which is prohibited by law. A law that no one seems to respect and no one enforces. Like many others before me, I wondered how this was possible. The National Revenue Agency has apologized in the past that these were not exactly gambling advertisements, and they did not know where and how many billboards there actually were. That is w…