The EU’s Fatigue, eastward
On March 31, 2024, Bulgaria and Romania became Schengen members: Bulgarians and Romanians can now go straight to their gates...
Francesco Trupia
Dr. Francesco Trupia is now the research adjunct at the University Centre for Excellence “Interacting Minds, Environments and Societies – IMSErt” at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. He is currently PI of the research project “Civic Responses and Cultural Identity Dilemmas of the Second Generation of Balkan Muslims in Time of Illiberal Democracy”, supported by the National Science Centre in Krakow (Poland). Research interests: identity and memory politics, minority inclusion, the study of civil society in Southeast Europe and Caucasus, etc. Publication: “Debuking 'the Great Equaliser’ Discourse: Minority Perspectives from Bulgaria and Kosovo during the First Shockwave of the Covid-19 Pandemic”, “‘Good personhood’in Kosovo: a Serbian perspective from below”.
Anti-Communist hysteria is turning against democracy
Every February, the past reemerges out of the everyday worries of Bulgarian society. Emotions run high amidst the Day of...
Putinism has gone global
This February marks two years from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Putin’s rhetoric has not waned but rather gone...
Francesco Trupia: North Kosovo crisis – the dilemma and turnaround for Kosovo Serbs
After the 1999 Kosovo War, Belgrade established its parallel system to exert control over Kosovo Serbs and cement ethnic partition...
