Atanas Pekanov: There is no political will for a just transition, but the European Commission should be more flexible too
Atanas Pekanov is a Bulgarian economist. He was the Deputy Prime Minister for EU Funds Management in the first (12...
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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...
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,...
Yordan Bozhilov: Regional connectivity is the key to affirmation of Central and Southeastern Europe
Vladimir Mitev Yordan Bozhilov is the founder and President of the Sofia Security Forum. He is former Deputy Minister of...
Paula Erizanu in Ruse: You can be Moldovan, Romanian, Londoner and European at the same time. Moldovans are by nature polyglots and cosmopolitans
The Bridge of Friendship, 9 October 2024 Moldovan writer and journalist Paula Erizanu presented her forthcoming book, which gathers the...
Radu Magdin: The trend in Europe goes eastward
Vladimir Mitev, Mediapool, 9 September 2024 Radu Magdin is CEO of Smartlink Communications and a (geo)political risk analyst and consultant. In...
Menta space: fighting for Bulgaria without everyday violence and abuse [audio interview]
Natalie Atanasova of a Bulgarian feminist, queer, anticapitalist and anti-violence Menta Space joins Cross-Border Talks to talk about the initiative...
Bulgaria’s political crisis demonstrates, among other things, Sofia’s lack of regional and EU ambitions
Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Vladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian speaking journalist, who is also one of the founders of the Cross-border Talks...
