Young people, media and civic culture: Bulgaria and Romania meet the Gen Z and young millennials
By Vladimir Mitev To be young is not a quality. A “young person” could mean many things. Yet popular culture,...
Southeastern Europe
Protest with dozens of Greenpeace activists on the beach in Vama Veche against Black Sea drilling
Vama Veche, September 22, 2025 – On September 21, 2025, over 50 activists from Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia...
Romania’s self-destructive austerity is the best gift the far right could hope for
Andrei Gudu Romania’s government is facing a serious economic challenge: its budgetary deficit, the largest in the EU, is expected...
The Romanian energy transition: ambitions and limitations
Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, Vladimir Mitev Alin Tănase is the campaign coordinator for Greenpeace Romania. He is passionate about geography, has a...
Ivo Indzhov: Ukraine’s fate and its absence from Trump’s games with Putin, marginally present in the Bulgarian mainstream media
Yuliana Metodieva, Marginalia, 14.08.2025 In Bulgarian media, the upcoming meeting in Alaska between US President Donald Trump and Russian President...
Migrant rights activist: “It is not the presence of a Saudi dissident in Bulgaria, but the infiltration of Saudi influence in the Bulgarian security services that poses a threat to the country”
Statement by an activist from the Solidarity with Migrants - Bulgaria movement This speech was made during a protest in...
“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...
Wolves in sheep’s clothing
For several years, I accompanied the descendants of the Romanian legionaries to commemorations and memorial services, and spoke with leaders...
Concerns for Romania’s future after the presidential elections: financial uncertainty and political instability
Vladimir Mitev, Mediapool, 11 May 2025 At the end of the week following the first round of the presidential elections, signs...
A political era is ending in Romania. The next one could be even worse
France had Gaullism. Argentina had Peronism, an ideology based on the legacy of its former president Juan Domingo Perón. Trumpism...
