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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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The reshuffle after the arrests in Bankya and the GERB glue

Boyko Borisov and his power apparatus are the main obstacle to the ongoing processes of political realignment in Bulgaria[1]. For and against the Gerbadzhi domination is our, local division, which even today manages to unite in one camp forces with opposite attitudes to the new main dividing line in countries with a Western-style policy …

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The march towards the eurozone and the price we will pay

Author: Stefan Antonov On July 10 (the day before the elections) it will be one year since Bulgaria and Croatia were admitted to the waiting room of the eurozone and the banking union. GERB's decision to push in this direction became a fact despite legitimate and well-founded concerns that the state was taking unacceptable risks. The period since its …

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“Conservator”: The End of an Experiment

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The “Conservator” website is deserted. At the time of writing this text, the most current articles on the main page were uploaded at best three days ago. None of the five were written for the site – they are all reprints. To the extent that there are still people who make efforts for “Conservator”, they are directed …

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Are there any heralds left?

"The material that appears in elections or from which we can choose as footage is not great at all," said Boyko Borisov at a meeting with Bulgarians in Chicago in 2009. Although the media then attributed to him the words "the material is bad," which he never actually said, what he said then...

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Slavi, why are you without a hat?

The nomination of Antoaneta Stefanova gave everyone the opportunity to practice their chess clichés – from “zungzwang” to “Sicilian defense”. However, that is not what matters. The more important part of the statement by Slavi Trifonov, chairman of “There is such a people”, was that the second term would be returned. In this way, it practically ended …

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Borisov mocks the trust of his own voters

On Sunday, all of Bulgaria woke up to another peculiar address by the outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. Thank God, this time it was not from the notorious jeep, but took place in the form of a formal press conference. At it, Borisov responded to the demands of the new parliament to appear and present the National …

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The compass continues to be broken.

Guest author: Kristiyan Hristov This article is a continuation of "Left, Right Undetermined: The Compass Remains Broken" from "2020: Inside and Beyond" Eleven days after Election Day and on the day of the first session of the 45th National Assembly (fortunately in the right building), the left-right divide still does not exist. Again, the divide …

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GERB is not the lesser, but the greatest evil

Boyko Borissov is living out his last days as Prime Minister of Bulgaria. It cannot be said that he is doing it particularly calmly: just two hours after the end of election day, he basically scolded the other parties and ordered them to first form an expert cabinet with him, and then ...

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