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On the EU’s suicidal no-gas-or-oil-from-Russia madness /w Irina Slav

Boyan Stanislavski
Energy
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Irina Slav is a Bulgarian specialist in the production and trade of energy. In addition to being an author at OilPrice.com, she is also the proprietor of an independent blog, which can be found on...

Dangerous gas smell around Ukraine

Herman Michiel
Analysis
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If Russia invades Ukraine, the pipeline between Russia and Germany will not become operational. There will be no more Nord Stream 2. We will put an end to that. Promise, we are able to do...

Humanitarian crisis on the EU’s eastern border and the Polexit humbug

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Human rights and civic liberties
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The Polish-Belarussian border became a place of utter terror for thousands of Middle Eastern migrants who were enticed by Belarussian dictatorial leader Lukashenko with the prospect of easy access to the European Union. The Polish...

Why did the EU accept authoritarianism in Bulgaria but object to it in Belarus?

The Barricade
Analysis
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This is the second part of a two-part discussion on Europe's growing authoritarian tendencies, especially in Eastern Europe. We'll talk about the West's hypocritical and selective response to this phenomenon in this segment. The EU,...

While the EU opposes authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, it is delighted with its own!

The Barricade
Analysis
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This is the first installment of a series of commentaries produced by The Barricade and The Analysis in collaboration. Journalists from Bulgarian, Romanian, and Polish left-wing media gather to discuss the situation in Eastern Europe...

June’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs: A week of summits demonstrates Europe’s geopolitical im..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Global affairs
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The G7 summit, the Biden-Putin summit, the EU-US summit... Isn't that a lot of summits for just a week or so? What does Eastern Europe stand to gain? Is it going to have an impact...

On the barricades — May’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Economy & finance
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We cover the most important events of the previous few weeks in this episode, which we usually release at the end of the month. May's selection was particularly difficult because there were so many interesting...

A Winner Take All System

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Democracy
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For some years, the global financial elite has established a money power apparatus that not just increases the elite’s wealth but also acts through lobbying and corruption in the field of political elites. Many top...

Exploitation of Eastern European migrant workers

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
France
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Due to the dismantlement of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, we were told we were now going to live in the best of all worlds. As we were led to believe the mythology...

The most relevant 2020 events for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans

Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă
Albania
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After almost two decades of intense European integration efforts, democratic performance throughout the region has not yet acquired the expected positive dynamic. The Zagreb Summit from May 2020, the first such event organised only online...