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Exposing Anti-Left Rhetoric

Piotr Kuligowski
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Anti-communist – or, more broadly, anti-revolutionary – rhetoric has enjoyed an obstinately persistent presence in Western political discourse since the French Revolution. Constant change in the composition of the various social movements and the continual...

European Commission: Devastating poverty and inequality in Bulgaria

Ivaylo Atanasov
Bulgaria
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The "modestly redistributive effect of flat income tax" and "relatively low levels of social protection spending" mean inequality and poverty in Bulgaria are the highest in the EU, despite economic growth and low unemployment in...

Romania: The anti-corruption jihad in education leads nowhere

Aurelian Giugăl
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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What shows a study, that analyzing the effects of the fight against fraud during the university exam in Romania. There is already a rich scientific literature on the fight against corruption, both in general terms...

Greece, Romania and Bulgaria still need to accomplish ”material” cooperation

Vladimir Mitev
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The trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers in Buchrest has created new expectations towards the summit about the Western Balkans in Sofia and the one about the Danube Strategy in Rousse in May 2018 The...

Vanagas Versus Vanagaitė: How Does Lithuania (Not) Talk About its “Cursed Soldiers?”

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
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The scandal that recently shocked Lithuania has many aspects well known from the Polish reality: aggressive historical policy, cult of the sacrosanct “cursed soldiers”, and fight with Russian propaganda. And there is no good ending....

Bulgaria discovers fanatical conservatism

Georgi Hristov
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As with most nightmares, in the beginning it all looked like a bad joke. No sane person could have suspected that what was about to unfold was possible. But in the first days of 2018...

Bulgaria: The “patriotic” government hand in hand with the oligarchy and the business

Nikolay Draganov
Bulgaria
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After weeks of pathetic hiding from unions' representatives - not coming to previously arranged meetings, not picking up phones, etc., the "patriotic" majority in the National Assembly introduced legal amendments desired by business organizations. The...

Bulgarian unions: Poverty in Bulgaria still on the rise

Nikolay Draganov
Bulgaria
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2,325 leva (approx. 1,200 euros) – this is what a household in Bulgaria needs in order to be able to have some kind of normal standard of living. This amount is required to cover the cost...

The pathetic battle of in-laws and cousins over the Bulgarian energy sector

Kaloyan Todorov
Bulgaria
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There is a second wave of “privatization” for a stake in the energy business. The battle is about who should take over. Varna TPP, an asset of the Czechs, was sold in a similar scheme....

Affordable education? Not for 76% of Bulgarians

Ivaylo Atanasov
Bulgaria
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School fees, enrollment, examinations, books, textbooks, journeys, meals, and any other school expenses - even the nominal free education phases of our education system are overshadowed by the extra payments, that make it difficult for...

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