Maria Simeonova: Brussels is determined to uphold the European perspective of the six Western Balkan countries
Maria Simeonova is the programme coordinator for the Wider Europe programme and ECFR’s Sofia office. She focuses on the Western...
Social issues
The last fortress of the Bulgarian economy
Dimiar Sabev, Economic Life, 21 December 2022 A missing perspective towards the eurozone membership debates The discussion “for” and “against” the...
5 Inspiring Moments of Social Life in Central-Eastern Europe, 2022
It was a tough year for most of us in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of 2021, we...
Greek authorities support Ukrainain refugees and neglect other migrants
On 10 September 2022 a panel on migration took place in the Architects’ Club in Sofia within the conference an...
For higher wages and transparent working conditions: Polish delivery workers raise their heads
- This platform works in such a way that we never know what the rules are - sometimes a bonus...
Ukrainian employers use the war as pretext to cancel workers’ rights
- Sometimes I get calls from various people and they say 'my relative has fallen at the front and his...
We Just Can’t Wait for World Leaders to Fix Our Broken Food System
We’re facing an unprecedented “code red for humanity,” in the words of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres—yet global action has...
COP27 – has any breakthrough been achieved?
The 27th annual UN climate summit, known as COP 27, ran from November 6 to 18, 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh...
‘It is a shame we recruited you’: how a French-Polish businessman fired a labour organizer
In the developed economies of Western Europe, labour unions are considered a standard actor of social life. This is, however,...
Nidžara Ahmetašević: Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina are part of a political experiment
The Bosnian journalist Nidžara Ahmetašević speaks to Cross-border Talks about living in a political experiment together with her fellow citizens....
