Bulgaria

Home
Bulgaria

Thumbs up, thumbs down, part 2: Government breakdown in Bulgaria; The Summit of the Americas

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
0 Comments

This is the second instalment of this week's “On the Barricades” release. This episode is part of our regular series, which we co-produce and co-host with Youri Smouter of 1+1. Maria, Boyan, and Youri discuss:...

Capitalist society, not just attitudes, are to blame for social exclusion of the Roma population.

Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
0 Comments

The Roma population in Romania, 86% of whom live in appalling conditions that force children to beg and hunt through trash to survive, are the target of major, normalized racism by their non-Roma neighbors; similarly...

The lunacy of Bulgaria and Poland rejecting Russian gas

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
0 Comments

In this episode, Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discuss the governments of Poland and Bulgaria strange decision to refuse to follow the payment methodology proposed by the Russians in exchange for natural gas delivery. The...

Bulgaria: Between pro-war consensus and the need for an anti-war movement

Stanislav Dodov
Bulgaria
0 Comments

As the reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have shown, Bulgaria is not ready for a new anti-war movement, despite the urgency of the task. The majority of people with some access to the public...

The necessary change in Bulgaria: from static to dynamic identity?

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
0 Comments

In the English-language world, the story from Panchatantra about the elephant and the blind wise men is popular. Each of them touched a certain part of his body and proclaimed that part to be the...

Bulgaria’s anti-vaxx fervor reaches new heights

Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
0 Comments

Four police officers were taken to the hospital, and several journalists were injured, after a crowd protesting the government's new anti-Covid measures became strange and violent in the Bulgarian capital's city center on January 12. According to...

The Euro Peripheries: how the EU is (dis)organizing its agricultural sector

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
0 Comments

Veronika Susova-Salminen is one of the members who worked on the project A Hundred Shades of the EU – Mapping the Political Economy of the Euro Peripheries with the support of Transform! Europe and the...

Eastern Europe, liberal democracy, and the disorientation of the left — Nov 2021

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
0 Comments

Here's the latest installment of our monthly thumbs-ups and thumbs-downs. This time, the period is November 2021. This episode is hosted by Youri Smouter, the host of the "1+1" show on YouTube and a long-time...

Bulgaria’s new political victor promises to continue the country’s downward spiral

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Anti-corruption
0 Comments

On November 14th Bulgaria held its third round of parliamentary elections after the first two rounds took place in April and July, and did not result in the forming of a government. For the first...

Bulgarian Left on its deathbed

Boyan Stanislavski
Analysis
0 Comments

The elections in Bulgaria this past Sunday (November 14) raised the usual set of questions for anyone who has even tangentially followed the country's political process. Why, in the poorest country in the EU, devastated...