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Can Bulgaria achieve its Balkan ambitions?

Bulgaria’s new role as president of the Council of the EU has started with a bang – quite literally.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 19 Jan 2018

Can Bulgaria achieve its Balkan ambitions?

Bulgaria’s new role as president of the Council of the EU has started with a bang – quite literally.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 19 Jan 2018

Montenegro: something had to give

The resignation of Milo Djukanovic, who has ruled Montenegro since 1991, is the logical end result of a political establishment whose contradictions could no longer hold the country together.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 27 Oct 2016

Montenegro: something had to give

The resignation of Milo Djukanovic, who has ruled Montenegro since 1991, is the logical end result of a political establishment whose contradictions could no longer hold the country together.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 27 Oct 2016

Italy’s Mafia finds blood money in unexpected places

The fact that Mafia groups have been handed construction contracts in places like Amatrice - recently destroyed by an earthquake - shows just how far successive governments' anti-Mafia rhetoric is from reality.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 8 Sep 2016

Italy’s Mafia finds blood money in unexpected places

The fact that Mafia groups have been handed construction contracts in places like Amatrice - recently destroyed by an earthquake - shows just how far successive governments' anti-Mafia rhetoric is from reality.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 8 Sep 2016

ISIS, identity and the destruction of antiquities

Confronted with the suffering of Syrian refugees, mourning world heritage seems academic at best. But Islamic State must not succeed in its cultural cleansing.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 11 Sep 2015

For African dictators, terrorism has its up-sides

In the name of 'fighting terror', African strongmen are strengthening their hold on power.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 24 Feb 2015

Greece and the financial politics of football

Owning a football club has increasingly become a means of securing political influence in many European countries. The recent Koriopolis scandal in Greece is just one example of this.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 21 Oct 2014

Greece and the financial politics of football

Owning a football club has increasingly become a means of securing political influence in many European countries. The recent Koriopolis scandal in Greece is just one example of this.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 21 Oct 2014

What Romania can teach the western world

Unlike France, Italy or the Netherlands, the crisis of Romania’s elites has not led to a rise in xenophobic politics but to a digital revolution that challenges traditional assumptions about democratic change. Euro elections landscape, 2014.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 5 Feb 2014

What Romania can teach the western world

Unlike France, Italy or the Netherlands, the crisis of Romania’s elites has not led to a rise in xenophobic politics but to a digital revolution that challenges traditional assumptions about democratic change. Euro elections landscape, 2014.

By Marcu Niculescu

/ 5 Feb 2014