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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionBulgaria: textbook case of Russian penetration?The procurement of other nations’ leaders while the EU looks on, has possibly been Putin’s greatest discovery.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Borisov’s proposed Grand National Assembly and Bulgarian democratic prospectsDemocracy is under threat in Bulgaria and the EU only undermines its own authority by failing to make it clear that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Voice, not exit. Portraits of protestersWho are the Bulgarian citizens in the streets, aspiring to reconquer a state captured by post-democratic elites?...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bulgarian protests: battles over anti-corruption?The ‘Anti-corruption’ fight in Bulgaria that erupted again on July 9, 2020, is caught in a clash between two...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionHow to dismantle a democracy: the case of BulgariaNot only fascistic xenophobes are capable of killing democracy. Semi-literate macho males bereft of any...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Eyes wide shut: collective punishment of Roma in 21st-century Europe75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, despite the EU Framework for Roma Integration which closes this year,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?EU citizenship, but no shoes: the Roma of Bulgaria“I cannot remain quiet on this glaring and incongruous hole in its otherwise incredibly welcoming culture.”
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightFootball fandom and fascist generals: Bulgaria’s radical rightThe hateful actions of the furthest fringes tend to be tolerated, downplayed or even ignored.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Post-democracy: there's plenty familiar about what is happening in BulgariaPost-democracy is the latest wave of post-communist transformation – the result of state capture and the alienation...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?For Bulgarian citizens when populism is mainstreamed, contestability is more important than consentProtests may not achieve their goals or provide a new democratic model, but they have been a laboratory for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Liberals against nationalism in Central Europe? It would have been a nice ideaThe problem with Central European liberal anti-nationalism is not that it went too far, but that it never really existed.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poor child healthcare in Bulgaria and RomaniaSimilar problems are observed as in Romania, joined by Bulgaria at the bottom of the league table in terms of infant...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?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.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Facts will not save (the youth) from Fake. Citizenship willHow can we reconquer the capital city, symbolically – both in real and virtual terms – to capture the imagination of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turning the Macedonian tables: what if the solution to the identity issue is the basis for solving the name of the state?Perhaps an identity-related distinction rather than a geographical one could resolve the dispute more swiftly and on...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Those who want more, do more? A view from BulgariaThe idea of a 'two-speed European Union', proposed by Jean-Claude Juncker, ignores the actual problems which are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The five 'infections' of the social democratic 'family' in the Western BalkansSocial democracy is failing all across Europe; but it's impotence in the Balkans especially is having serious...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Our lives may be rubbish, but they are lives worth livingTheatre Replika's We Are The Rubbish From Eastern Europe documents everyday life in order to illustrates just how...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe's refugee choice: unity or delugeA great inflow of refugees has triggered division and alarm across the European Union. But history advises, and the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European refugee crisis: Bulgaria’s wake-up call?The refugee crisis has superceded refugees and countries are being forced to choose sides. Why does Bulgaria support...
