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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bulgaria: leaving no man's land behind for the EU open door
One lesson we are learning is that although Brussels is important, it is not a universal solution. Brussels is used...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From a rolling stone to moving mountains: the process of democratic change in Bulgaria
If there is a message that I can pass along after spending almost a month in Bulgaria, it is a message of unity.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bulgaria: lost in transition
Many of the problems in Bulgaria today stem from the corrupt and undemocratic way in which the 1989 transition was...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What does #occupySU mean in the context of contemporary Bulgaria?
What does it mean to become a democratic citizen? Two Bulgarian emigrees interview a student protester in Sofia.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dancing, alert and electrified: Bulgaria through the looking glass
We are on the right path as we see the formation of a new national identity that is fundamentally European; and we...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charter to dismantle the plutocratic model of the Bulgarian state
An independent civil initiative to restore democracy and the rule of law in Bulgaria.
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Published in: HomeBetween global and local: a new dialectic of political expression for the twenty-first century
Three weeks into the ongoing protests in Bulgaria, the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations...
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Published in: HomeBulgaria’s belated struggle for democracy
Our protests cannot match theirs in scale. But we demand our share, however small it might be. It is ideas and...
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Published in: HomeBulgarians confront the oligarchs
The streets of Sofia are awash with demonstrators: the terms of this protest movement, as in Sao Paulo and Istanbul,...
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Published in: HomeBulgaria, protest for the future
Bulgarian citizens are protesting across the country against the capture of their government and for a meaningful...
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Published in: HomeBulgaria’s elections: change we disbelieve in
A mixed result offers some satisfaction to all of Bulgaria's largest parties. But signs of escape from the country's...
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Published in: HomeThe Bulgarian winter of protests
In the last week of February, after days of protests across the country, the Bulgarian government headed by Boyko...
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Published in: HomeBulgaria’s anger, the real source
An escalating crisis in Bulgaria marked by street-protests across the country forced the government's resignation....