Bulgaria will adopt the euro in 2024 because ‘[t]he benefits […] outweigh the drawbacks’. At least, this is what Bulgaria’s finance minister, Asen Vasilev, argued to...
The city of Svilengrad, Bulgaria, has signed the Zero Waste Cities Certification Agreement, becoming the first Bulgarian Zero Waste Candidate City. Led by the city mayor,...
Over the last two years, Bulgarian politics has manifested chronic instability, extreme fractiousness and scarce capacity for reform. Nevertheless, in the immediate aftermath of the second...
Despite 30 years of post-socialist transformation, many CSOs in the country are unable to counter the denigrating rhetoric that some media outlets use against them. Challenging...
As of November, Bulgarian voters headed to the polls four times this year. Therefore, the news of a new election evokes little surprise — almost like...
Bulgaria today signed the Articles of Agreement of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), joining a global coalition of development partners committed to accelerating the...
On October 6, Slovenia hosted a summit between the EU and the Western Balkans states. The EU-27 met with their counterparts (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North...
In the last few years, Eastern European politics has hit the headlines around the world rather often. However, commentaries on the topic have been everything but...
The Bulgarian populist who charmed Europe Boyko in a nutshell One of the least surprise aspects in the comparative politics of Bulgaria and Israel lies in...
In mid-June 2021, a small country facing the eastern Mediterranean experienced a transformative political moment. In mid-August, a small country on the Western shore of the...