Less than a week before the elections, the fact that for the first time in the history of Bulgarian parliamentarism the Turkish minority will be represented by two different political formations seems to be underestimated. The topic of ethnic parties and analyzing politics through this prism are taboo due to the legal discrepancies between theory and practice…

There are three reasons why this month, it is a priority to follow politics in the media, not elsewhere - certainly the main focus of politicians is to be alert to what they are saying, how they are saying it, and whether there is a microphone or camera around them at the relevant moment.

Naturally, for a campaign that came at an awkward moment and caught the players unprepared, the parties split into two camps - some are afraid to promise anything (we've heard the blabbermouth: "We don't promise, we offer"), while the others promise everything and a lot of it.

Even before the referendum on the fate of nuclear energy has been held, it feels like it will be remembered not so much for its result as for the fuss surrounding its conduct. The focus has shifted to its technology and the constantly emerging procedural and legal messes. The interest is not in the topic, but in …

The mass approval and sympathy for the mysterious "snitch" launched a kind of crusade against the outrages of political life.

Over the past few weeks, we have repeatedly witnessed the obsessive infantility of the Bulgarian political system. This is, of course, the decision of the municipal councilors from the MRF in Kardzhali to vote with an "abstention" on the proposal to declare Gen. Vasil Delov an honorary citizen of the city.

One of the most striking characteristics of societies in crisis is their intolerance of the past. The end of the transition has not yet come.

The main reasons for the lack of normal channels for dialogue preceding the adoption of laws and the protests against them lie in the structure of our political system and the habits of our political class.

The second round of Greek elections this year will be remembered more as a referendum "for or against Europe" than as a real democratic procedure for forming a parliament.

Greece wants the euro, but it doesn't want euro conditions. This impasse defines the entire political process in our southern neighbor as an endless and painful maneuvering between popular and European discontent.