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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From a rolling stone to moving mountains: the process of democratic change in BulgariaIf 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?Britain's Bulgaria-Romania phobiaThe panic in Britain over prospective Bulgarian and Romanian immigration is based on misunderstanding of European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bulgaria: lost in transitionMany 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 glassWe 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?Bulgaria's refugee crisisBulgaria is struggling to cope with the number of Syrian refugees fleeing to its borders. This is a problem for the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charter to dismantle the plutocratic model of the Bulgarian stateAn 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 centuryThree 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 democracyOur 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 oligarchsThe 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 futureBulgarian 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 protestsIn 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....
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Published in: HomeRoma inclusion in 2012: no respite in prejudice
Does the EU deserve its Nobel Peace Prize? 2013 is the European Year of Citizens, dedicated to the rights that come...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?There and back again? Media freedom and autonomy in Central and Eastern EuropeCollusion between the press and politicians is not confined to western Europe. Central and Eastern European...
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Published in: HomeBulgarian national identity in an era of European integrationAlmost six years after its accession to the European Union, Bulgaria is confronted with the ghosts of a nationalist...
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Published in: HomeFailing Roma, again
Roma need to become respected but also responsible citizens in their own countries. There are solutions. But none of...
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Published in: HomeDebating “the commons” in post-socialist Bulgaria
The absence of solidarity with other causes and the persistence of neoliberalism in Bulgarian protests against the...
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Published in: HomeBulgaria, the end of innocence
The bombing of Israeli tourists in the resort of Burgas suggests that Bulgaria's strategic choices have made it...
