EU – Page 2 – The Barricade

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...

Eastern Europe and protests: where’s the catch?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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They say protests go well on an empty stomach! During recent years, we have seen a wide range of protests taking place in Eastern Europe. From the Orange Revolutions to today’s massive protests in Bulgaria...

Ahlam Chemlali: EU institutions are rewarding authoritarian regimes over migration

Vladimir Mitev
Global affairs
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Ahlam Chemlali is from Copenhagen, Denmark, where she works as a programme manager at DIGNITY – The Danish Institute against Torture. In her work and research she has dealt with torture, migration, human rights abuses,...

As the population shrinks, the bureaucracy grows

Kaloyan Todorov
Bulgaria
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The planning of new regions in Bulgaria will lead to the creation of new administrative positions, without removing the old ones. Another bizarre new proposal is also being considered at the moment – that NGOs...

Erdoğan’s visit to Bulgaria: The sultan and the eunuchs

Pawel_Tsch
Analysis
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Erdoğan got just what he wanted from the meeting in Varna. And if the nervously grinning Borissov gave him the podium, the carte blanche to unleash his dictatorial insolence was handed to him by the...

What Bulgarians have never heard about ”the Romanian economic model”?

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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After Romania's economy grew by 8,8% in the third quarter, the Bulgarian Economic Chamber came out with a document and reasons for their success. However, this thesis by the Bulgarian economic experts was surprising to...

Maria Grapini: Romania and Bulgaria must increase their economic, cultural and education exchanges..

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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[caption id="attachment_16397" align="alignnone" width="900"] Maria Grapini at the Romanian-Bulgarian forum in Rousse on 20 October 2017 (photo: Maria Grapini, EP)[/caption] Maria Grapini is a member of the European parliament from the Group of the Progressive...

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

A Winner Take All System

Exploitation of Eastern European migrant workers

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

Eastern Europe and protests: where’s the catch?

Ahlam Chemlali: EU institutions are rewarding authoritarian regimes over migration

As the population shrinks, the bureaucracy grows

Erdoğan’s visit to Bulgaria: The sultan and the eunuchs

What Bulgarians have never heard about ”the Romanian economic model”?

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