By Simona Tarpova, Student at the American University in Bulgaria. [email protected] As a student who double-majors in Political Science and International Relations as well as European Studies I am interested in the comparative political context…
By Tiffany Dang, US student, AUBG Blagoevgrad In 2015, the EU was faced with a migrant crisis due to a major influx of migrants from the Middle East and Africa. Migrants from these regions flooded…
By Georgi Gotev In just one month from now, after the 26 May European elections in Bulgaria, it will be possible to compare this forecast with the actual results. This “educated guess” is based on…
By Krassen Nikolov Delyan Peevski, who is perhaps the most controversial figure in Bulgarian politics, was once again on Monday (22 April) nominated for MEP in the election list of the Movement for Rights and…
A commentary by Krassen Nikolov “I do not feel punished because no one can punish me.” This was the comment of the former leader of the GERB parliamentary group, Tzvetan Tzvetanov, after he resigned from…
By Krassen Nikolov The former district mayor of Sofia’s Mladost district Desislava Ivancheva who runs for the European elections as an independent candidate was sentenced in a corruption case on Monday (15 April). She was…
By Krassen Nikolov The National Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party rebelled against the BSP leader Kornelia Ninova and put PES leader Sergei Stanishev fifth in the party’s European Parliament election list. The fifth position…
By Krassen Nikolov The pro-European center-right coalition Democratic Bulgaria will face an unexpected rival while trying to pass the threshold of 5.9% at the European elections so that it could have at least one MEP….
Georgi Gotev Three months ago we launched the five blogs covering the EU elections in Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Italy and France. We have published a total of 239 articles to this hour, and the European…
By Krassen Nikolov The corruption scandal with the apartments bought by high level officials at suspiciously low prices might have a positive effect on the campaign for the European elections in Bulgaria. “Bulgaria should stop…
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