How many Times were Diplomatic Relations between Russia and Bulgaria Severed
If we look at history, there are not many cases in which relations between Bulgaria and Russia at the state level were as bad as they are at the moment.
Surreally about the EU? Not Really!
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Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
By Milena Hristova
When Marina Vladi travelled with her husband Vladimir Vysotsky on his first trip outside the Soviet Union, she took him to a supermarket in Austria. Overwhelmed by the wealth of goods, Vysotsky got sick and could not help throwing up.
The story, revived recently by a Bulgarian journalist, who grew up here during the communist times, sounded astonishingly real to me. Unlike the festivities that ushered the country into the EU....
Surreal is what today's European Union has been called by its critics. An organization that has problems with the real world and is threatened to turn into a non-event.
In Bulgaria, a Balkan country and a former Soviet satellite, emotions traditionally run high, people "love and hate each other strongly" and strongly believe that "seeing is believing".
Ironically, it will be namely the European Union that will bring critical mass to the emotions on the political scene in Bulgaria later this year. The MEPs elections in May will spell the fate of Bulgaria's parties and show them how fit they are for the upcoming local elections. The vote for MEP is sure not to quicken the pulse of the Bulgarian electorate, but it will be a test for all - the tree-party ruling coalition, the right-wing, the recently founded GERB party of Sofia mayor Borissov and the nationalists, who triumphed at the presidential elections in October.
The odds are that the fate of the ruling coalition will be decided by whether or not the so-called voting tourism is allowed.
The odds are that Boyko Borisov's open opposition to any party - allegiance will fail to drum support among voters from the left, centre and right wing.
The odds are that the right-wing, the first and most adamant supporters of the country's EU accession, will take up the smallest number of seats.
Ironically, the odds are that EU's unlikely far-right group will become even more likely and real.
When Marina Vladi travelled with her husband Vladimir Vysotsky on his first trip outside the Soviet Union, she took him to a supermarket in Austria. Overwhelmed by the wealth of goods, Vysotsky got sick and could not help throwing up.
The story, revived recently by a Bulgarian journalist, who grew up here during the communist times, sounded astonishingly real to me. Unlike the festivities that ushered the country into the EU....
Surreal is what today's European Union has been called by its critics. An organization that has problems with the real world and is threatened to turn into a non-event.
In Bulgaria, a Balkan country and a former Soviet satellite, emotions traditionally run high, people "love and hate each other strongly" and strongly believe that "seeing is believing".
Ironically, it will be namely the European Union that will bring critical mass to the emotions on the political scene in Bulgaria later this year. The MEPs elections in May will spell the fate of Bulgaria's parties and show them how fit they are for the upcoming local elections. The vote for MEP is sure not to quicken the pulse of the Bulgarian electorate, but it will be a test for all - the tree-party ruling coalition, the right-wing, the recently founded GERB party of Sofia mayor Borissov and the nationalists, who triumphed at the presidential elections in October.
The odds are that the fate of the ruling coalition will be decided by whether or not the so-called voting tourism is allowed.
The odds are that Boyko Borisov's open opposition to any party - allegiance will fail to drum support among voters from the left, centre and right wing.
The odds are that the right-wing, the first and most adamant supporters of the country's EU accession, will take up the smallest number of seats.
Ironically, the odds are that EU's unlikely far-right group will become even more likely and real.
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