Petar Vitanov: In Bulgaria, green and just transition issues have been swept below the floor for a long time. Now, they explode
- We all knew in 2020 what was going to happen. Industrial and energetical transitions have been imminent. But the...
Southeastern Europe
Romania at a Crossroads: Can Its Frail Democracy Endure the Season of Discontent?
A political earthquake hit Romanian society a few weeks ago when the first tour of the presidential race ended with...
A country like the West – but which West?
The presidential elections and their annulment have brought the political polarization in Romania to a peak unseen in the last...
Anticommunism is pushing Romania into the arms of fascism
I see more and more often these days, at the anti-Georgescu demonstrations and in the press, how the legionary past...
The petty-bourgeois utopia of Călin Georgescu
After utterly failing to predict the rise of the nationalist AUR party in the parliamentary elections four years ago, this...
Big news from Romania – not the rise of Georgescu, but the end of the Ciucă-Ciolacu regime
Not Putin and Soros, but Romanians decide who will lead them. As they adapt to the new Trump era, they...
Dimitar Sabev: Bulgaria’s green transition is not transformative. It simply replaces Big Coal with Big Solar
- If Bulgaria thinks strategically, we could turn the very miserable coal region of Maritsa East, with all its high...
Dimitar Sabev: The heterogeneity of political and economic interests in Maritsa East carbon region creates obstacles to the just transition process
Dimitar Sabev is an economist at the Economic Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD...
Central and Eastern Europe is expected to play a greater role in EU foreign and security policy
Vladimir Mitev, The Bridge of Friendship, 19 October 2024 Vessela Tcherneva, Deputy Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations,...
Periphery is opportunity – decolonial scholars from Central and South-Eastern Europe say
The transcript of an online discussion on the book "Reconfiguring EU Peripheries. Political elites, contestation and geopolitical shifts". On 30...
