“The operation was successful, but the patient died”: Romania, the EU and the far right
Carmen Rafanell, Florentin Cassonnet, Réalité (in French), 30 May 2025 Critic Atac (in Romanian), 5 June 2025 This dialogue...
Sovereignism
The Polish presidential elections in context
Vladimir Mitev, Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat On the night of 1–2 June 2025, the Cross-border Talks team — Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat and Vladimir...
Sebastian Burduja: If the citizens do not support the energy transition, we will get nowhere
Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, Vladimir Mitev Sebastian Burduja, Romanian Minister of Energy, answers questions from the Cross-Border Talks team on Romania's energy...
Bogdan Cozma: We observe a strengthening of the strategic partnership between Poland and Romania
Bogdan Cozma is program coordinator at the German Marshall Fund, with expertise in the geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe...
Florian Marin: We cannot talk about achievements when we talk about just transition in Romania
Vladimir Mitev Florian Marin is a Romanian economist, expert in management, social policy and labor market. He holds a PhD...
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...
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...
Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat: We have to speak not of united, but of diverse and pluralistic souvereignism in Europe. And its main allegiance is not to Russia, but to… itself
Vladimir Mitev Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat is a Polish journalist focused on international relations and social issues. She is one of the...
Bulgarians are voting from the position of a nation on the European periphery
A large part of the Bulgarian electorate, especially outside the capital, may not have a conscious, argued, informed, and engaged...
