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Cross-border Talks
Cross-Border Talks is an independent medium ran by journalists from Poland, Bulgaria and Czechia.
An analyst for TVP from the University of Warsaw's take on the Serbian students' protests![]()
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Protests in Serbia | Spasimir Domaradzki
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Serbia holds a general strike on Friday, which the organizers call a "general civil disobedience". As anti-government protests intensify across Serbia, the ...
Ognyan Atanasov is Vice President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (KNSB) with the portfolio Social Protection, Safety and Health at Work. Fair Green Transition and Ecology”. He spoke to the website “Found in Transition”, which reports on the activities of Cross-border Talks, a cross-border journalism project on just transition in Central and South-Eastern Europe.![]()
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Ognyan Atanasov points out that the KNSB clearly sees the interest of the workers in the Maritsa East coal mining region in the absorption of Fair Transition funds and the implementation of this process, which would allow jobs to be preserved. However, Atanasov points out that there is a lack of political will to accelerate this process. Instead, parliamentary elections are constantly held, a stable government cannot be formed, problems are constantly postponed to the future, and solutions do not emerge. This is the main reason why the people of Bulgaria, and especially those working in the coal-mining regions, do not believe in a just transition and fall under the influence of populist parties.![]()
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Ognyan Atanasov reviews the current state of the just transition in Bulgaria as of autumn 2024. The interview took place at the end of October 2024.
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The Vice President of the KNSB, who is responsible for the green transition, comments on how the just transition is progressing in Bulgaria and why people do not believe in it
Just like during his first time in office, when he gifted substantial tax cuts to big business, Trump will govern in the interest of these privileged groups rather than the people who voted for him because of the rising food and housing costs. Many know this already, as they see the Democrats and the Republicans as two sides of the same coin. Thus, while Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate in twenty years to win the popular vote, with over 76 million votes, nearly 90 million eligible voters did not vote at all. This signals a deep crisis of representation in one of the ‘cradles of modern democracy’.
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Trump’s landslide victory in the US elections has sent shockwaves throughout the broad tent of...
- I am afraid the only predictable part of Trump's political behaviour is the unpredictability. But on the other hand, we always have to remember that Trump is the spokesman, the catalyst, but not the generator of deeper political trends and processes - says the Bulgarian analyst and former diplomat Lyubomir Kyuchukov in the interview on the perspectives of international politics in the Trump era.
Lyubomir Kyuchukov: Currently, the EU tries to play at other players’ ground - Cross-border Talks
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The former Bulgarian deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to the UK speaks to Cross-border...
Given that the Polish state owes its independent existence to an international rule of law, one could expect more respect towards the ICC from its leaders. Yet, short-term political interest prevailed.
How to commemorate genocide? Poland knows! - Cross-border Talks
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Poland had forgotten the own role in international relations, the own core interests and history,...