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A Fairy Tale for 2025

In 2025, world affairs are precariously poised between the bright horizon of technical ingenuity and the dark legacy of conflict. On one side stands Aldous Huxley's futuristic anti-utopia: a realm powered by artificial intelligence, biotechnology and hyperconnected digital societies that promise longer and more carefree lives. On the other side …

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A Tale of 2025

In 2025, world affairs are precariously poised between the bright horizon of technological ingenuity and the dark legacy of conflict. On one side stands Aldous Huxley's futuristic dystopia: a realm powered by artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and hyper-connected digital societies that promise longer, more carefree lives. On the other side is...

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What happens in parliament – explained by the Realignment

The concentration of seven consecutive elections and the record failure in the vote for president require a short correspondence with structuralist analysis. To refresh the memory. At the heart of the political crisis lies the combination of two faults (cleavage - for political scientists from the NBU and the Faculty of Philosophy), represented through the party groups in the National Assembly. The first is ...

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The Night of the Long Euro-Atlantic Knives

GERB is swallowing PP-DB like a boa constrictor – bite by bite – Kostadin Kostadinov flowerily expressed himself during the unfortunate negotiations for the rotation of the assembly. Pointing us to a half-forgotten trope from the coalition past of Boris’s party stating that whoever governs with GERB remains a historical footnote – Reformist Bloc, …

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Why did they give up on expelling mafiqta in the judicial system?

The latest episode of the "judicial reform" saga ended, as the employers of the smart-beautiful activists would say, with a whimper, instead of an explosion. But why? Why did they simply fulfill a few formal KPIs - Geshev fell, they smeared the constitution - but somehow it doesn't seem like the "bad guys" have lost their influence, quite the opposite. Complete dominance in the quota...

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The Aristocratic Candidate

The latest election ad by Vasil Terziev that I came across seems to be starting to adapt the right rhetoric. Is Terziev's headquarters and the democratic community slowly starting to REDIPILE? I can only hope. The clip is very simple and that is precisely its genius. On a white background in a film studio …

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The Possible European Union

Populism, nationalism or anti-globalism – names of the new political movement emerging in a majority of European countries. Part of Steve Davis’s great realignment[1], which cyclically changes the main dividing line in Western democratic societies. New left and right, changed content of the political center, debate shifted along a different axis from the previous one. The views …

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Legal aspects of the referendum to preserve the lev

|Full text of the analysis| On July 7, 2023, the majority in the National Assembly rejected the holding of a referendum on preserving the Bulgarian lev as a currency and, accordingly, postponing accession to the eurozone until at least 2043. The Parliament rejected the referendum proposal formulated in this way, even though all legal requirements were met and …

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The theory of political realignment with another prognostic triumph

Our previous text[1] on the issue of reshuffle showed the way out of the so-called political crisis in the country. The way to overcome the difficulties in forming a stable, coherent government. At that time we wrote: “It is increasingly clear that the conflict that led to the beginning of the current phase of the political cycle is fading away, far from the focus of public …

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