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...
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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...
Menta space: fighting for Bulgaria without everyday violence and abuse [audio interview]
Natalie Atanasova of a Bulgarian feminist, queer, anticapitalist and anti-violence Menta Space joins Cross-Border Talks to talk about the initiative...
Bulgaria’s political crisis demonstrates, among other things, Sofia’s lack of regional and EU ambitions
Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Vladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian speaking journalist, who is also one of the founders of the Cross-border Talks...
