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On October 9, 2002, in its annual report, the European Commission recognized Bulgaria as a country with a functioning market economy. According to the EC's assessment, Bulgaria's progress in economic terms strengthened its position in the negotiations for membership in the European Union. Mainly thanks to this progress, five years later, in 2007 …

Author: Emil A. Georgiev Why does the number of members of parliament in Germany vary from election to election? What is the first-past-the-post system? How many parties are running in these elections? Why could this Bundestag be the largest ever elected? How are the Chancellor and the government elected? In many ways, the German …

It is very difficult to define and specify what culture and cultural policies are, but one of the most clearly defining things about culture is that it is different and specific in different places. Attempts to equate, level, unify and create general cultural policies in different places actually destroy it. Any society, no matter how …

As you have surely already understood, a few days ago the new President of France Emmanuel Macron visited Bulgaria and during his personal meeting with Prime Minister Borisov he set the following ultimatum: France will support Bulgaria's interests within the EU and in particular our possible candidacy for entry into the Eurozone...

For many people, mostly with more left-wing ideological views, the past year was bad and even scandalous because of Donald Trump and Brexit. However, neither Trump has begun his reign, nor Brexit is a fact, so there is no need for hasty conclusions and mass hysteria. Quite the opposite – the focus should be on …

The events surrounding and especially after Brexit have once again brought to the forefront the fundamental debate about what the right "recipe" for the European Union is – is a Europe of nation states better than a united and centralized Europe? On one side of this argument stand the Eurosceptic nationalist movements of the Old Continent – UKIP, …

International organizations, such as the UN, the EU, the World Bank, and the IMF, often emphasize how important education is for economic growth. This is a thesis with which I generally agree. Education is important and it is good for people to be educated. The logic of the prominent organizations, as well as the various private individuals who also …

Frank Hollenbeck Greece is back in the headlines. This should come as no surprise to anyone. It would be naive to think that the Greeks would accept to remain in debt forever. Despite all the rumors that Greece will be forced to leave the eurozone, there is actually no such mechanism through which the member states of the European Union (EU) …

With its decision on April 4 to adopt amendments to the Energy Law in the first reading in parliament, Bulgaria has proven in practice that it is trying to be Russia's "Trojan horse" in the European Union. The changes to the energy legislation effectively remove Bulgaria's obligations to comply with Directive 2009/73/EC...

Lyubomir Martinov Six years after Kosovo declared its independence, we are once again having to redraw the map of Europe. Who would have thought that, against the backdrop of the upcoming referendum on the separation of Scotland from the United Kingdom this fall and separatist sentiments in Catalonia, the object of the new border redrawing would be Crimea? …