What is crucial is that the people of Stara Zagora are given real, tangible opportunities – not just abstract promises
Rumyana Grozeva holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute of Economic Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her PhD is...
Southeastern Europe
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...
Lyubomir Kyuchukov: Currently, the EU tries to play at other players’ ground
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
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
- We all knew in 2020 what was going to happen. Industrial and energetical transitions have been imminent. But the...
Romania at a crossroads: can its frail democracy endure the season of discontent?
A political earthquake hit Romanian society a few weeks ago when the first tour of the presidential race ended with...
A country like the West – but which West?
The presidential elections and their annulment have brought the political polarization in Romania to a peak unseen in the last...
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...
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...
