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...
Southeastern Europe
Big news from Romania – not the rise of Georgescu, but the end of the Ciucă-Ciolacu regime
Not Putin and Soros, but Romanians decide who will lead them. As they adapt to the new Trump era, they...
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...
Central and Eastern Europe is expected to play a greater role in EU foreign and security policy
Vladimir Mitev, The Bridge of Friendship, 19 October 2024 Vessela Tcherneva, Deputy Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations,...
Periphery is opportunity – decolonial scholars from Central and South-Eastern Europe say
The transcript of an online discussion on the book "Reconfiguring EU Peripheries. Political elites, contestation and geopolitical shifts". On 30...
Yordan Bozhilov: Regional connectivity is the key to affirmation of Central and Southeastern Europe
Vladimir Mitev Yordan Bozhilov is the founder and President of the Sofia Security Forum. He is former Deputy Minister of...
Paula Erizanu in Ruse: You can be Moldovan, Romanian, Londoner and European at the same time. Moldovans are by nature polyglots and cosmopolitans
The Bridge of Friendship, 9 October 2024 Moldovan writer and journalist Paula Erizanu presented her forthcoming book, which gathers the...
Konrad Watrin: Amid the gloom of polycrisis, there are also reasons for optimism
Vladimir Mitev Konrad Watrin is a historian, political scientist and specialist on the Middle East (PhD), who has been working...
Radu Magdin: The trend in Europe goes eastward
Vladimir Mitev, Mediapool, 9 September 2024 Radu Magdin is CEO of Smartlink Communications and a (geo)political risk analyst and consultant. In...
