What is crucial is that the people of Stara Zagora are given real, tangible opportunities – not just abstract promises
Rumyana Grozeva holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute of Economic Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her PhD is...
Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Cross-Border Talks co-founder and co-coordinator. Poland-based journalist reporting on political life and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on labour movements. Examining peripheral capitalism and people's self-organisation. Digging out forgotten history of Polish (and East-European) workers' struggles. Her texts were published by Dziennik Trybuna in Poland, Left.it in Italy, Avgi in Greece and other progressive outlets.
Ognyan Atanasov: Bulgaria lacks political will to drive the just transition, but it has no alternative and is a chance for the affected regions
Vladimir Mitev, Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Ognyan Atanasov is Vice President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (KNSB) with...
Lyubomir Kyuchukov: Currently, the EU tries to play at other players’ ground
The former Bulgarian deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to the UK speaks to Cross-border Talks about international and EU...
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...
Sebastian Schäffer: Bridge-building Austria fights with the Fortress Austria [VIDEO]
Sebastian Schäffer, director of the Vienna-based Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, comments on the results of the...
Inside 2024 Russia: Repressive Laws, Tax Changes and Uncertainty before Another Election Day [VIDEO]
Researcher and historian Veronika Susova-Salminen, who is also co-host of Cross-Border Talks, answers Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat's questions about 2024 Russia -...
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...
