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Ognyan Atanasov: Bulgaria lacks political will to drive the just transition, but it has no alternative and is a chance for the affected regions

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Vladimir Mitev, Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Ognyan Atanasov is Vice President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (KNSB) with...

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The former Bulgarian deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to the UK speaks to Cross-border Talks about international and EU...

Atanas Pekanov: There is no political will for a just transition, but the European Commission should be more flexible too

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Atanas Pekanov is a Bulgarian economist. He was the Deputy Prime Minister for EU Funds Management in the first (12...

Petar Vitanov: In Bulgaria, green and just transition issues have been swept below the floor for a long time. Now, they explode

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- We all knew in 2020 what was going to happen. Industrial and energetical transitions have been imminent. But the...

Central and Eastern Europe is expected to play a greater role in EU foreign and security policy

Vladimir Mitev November 13, 2024 11

Vladimir Mitev, The Bridge of Friendship, 19 October 2024 Vessela Tcherneva, Deputy Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations,...

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Cross-border Talks November 9, 2024 7

The transcript of an online discussion on the book "Reconfiguring EU Peripheries. Political elites, contestation and geopolitical shifts". On 30...

Sergiu Mișcoiu: Polish-Romanian relations have a solid base for development

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Sergiu Mișcoiu is an expert in international relations and also specialises in issues related to Romania and Moldova. He is...

Why did Bulgarians’ and Gagauzes’ regions vote against Maia Sandu and the constitutional changes in Moldova, which are to allow EU membership?

Vladimir Mitev November 7, 2024 13

Vladimir Mitev, The Bridge of Friendship, Vladimir Mitev talks to Alexander Lambov, a PhD candidate in political science at the...

Octawian Milewski: Moldova needs collective international support to succeed with reforms in Maia Sandu’s second term

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Vladimir Mitev, The Bridge of Friendship, 5 November 2024 On 3 November 2024, Maia Sandu won the second round of the Moldovan...

Paula Erizanu in Ruse: You can be Moldovan, Romanian, Londoner and European at the same time. Moldovans are by nature polyglots and cosmopolitans

Vladimir Mitev October 10, 2024 12

The Bridge of Friendship, 9 October 2024 Moldovan writer and journalist Paula Erizanu presented her forthcoming book, which gathers the...

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Lyubomir Kyuchukov: Currently, the EU tries to play at other players’ ground

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