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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 …

(The Agitation for Happiness or How the Federation of Servile States Came into Being)[1] Krasen Stanchev "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." (Winston Churchill, 1941) "The more the state "plans," the more difficult it becomes for the individual to plan" (Friedrich von Hayek, 1944) The year 2022 is ...

Author: Vasil Kanev The case with the Republic of North Macedonia is becoming increasingly urgent, and no solutions are being proposed, despite the changed approach of the new government. Why is the Bulgarian side not understood, what are the Bulgarian interests and what can we change to protect them and resolve the case? I define myself as a patriot, …

The Bulgarian energy sector is in a special state, which according to Assoc. Prof. Krasen Stanchev[1] can already be called a crisis, while according to former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov[2] it is pre-crisis. The facts are that Bulgaria is still a significant producer and exporter of electricity, but, due to foreign policy circumstances, a significant share of our …

About a month ago, the Bulgarian online media outlet “Factcheck.bg” published an article with the following title: “Bulgaria in the Eurozone: Between Misconceptions and Facts”. Under the guise of combating disinformation, the author of the article, Yordan Barzakov, claims to be debunking “myths” about the “negatives of eurozone membership”. The introductory paragraph of the text is eloquent: “The closer it gets …

Amidst the enthusiasm for the investigation into the irregularities of the previous administration, the caretaker government of Stefan Yanev has approved a plan for Bulgaria to join the eurozone. This is a puzzling move, because this plan is largely inherited from the previous government, whose abuses in other areas the current caretaker cabinet appointed by …

The short answer is because, despite all the banditry that is spreading throughout the country, for the past 12 years the government has been unwaveringly implementing the agenda of the Berlin-Brussels-Paris axis. This so-called agenda generally consists of centralization and transfer of sovereignty (so-called European integration), granting artificial competitive advantages to industries/countries with strong lobbies in Brussels …

Mass restrictions are back. As the pandemic has escalated in recent weeks, a number of countries in Europe have re-imposed closures of most public facilities and businesses. Given that we are only at the beginning of the “cold” season of the year, the horizon for clearing the current escalation in the pandemic situation is very …

Have you ever wondered how a person like Boyko Borisov can propose an agreement like the Istanbul Convention for ratification by the parliament? How did his Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva sign the IC in Turkey in 2016, his Deputy Minister of Justice Desislava Ahladova promised at a roundtable with various …

After hundreds of sips of coffee with "sugar", Prime Minister Borisov triumphantly returned to Sofia a few days ago and declared. The Prime Minister did not hesitate to boast that the negotiations on the European Recovery Fund and the next EU Budget ended with a definite success for Bulgaria and almost personally he ...