Caught in the Middle: Europe and the Iran Crisis
Nobody asked Europe whether it wanted this war. The US and Israel acted alone on February 28th, and the continent woke up to a crisis it had no hand in starting but now has no choice but to navigate.
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Nobody asked Europe whether it wanted this war. The US and Israel acted alone on February 28th, and the continent woke up to a crisis it had no hand in starting but now has no choice but to navigate.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it did not count on one thing: that among the defenders standing in its way would be Bulgarians.
Bulgaria has a constitution, a parliament, and a president. What it has struggled to maintain, with remarkable consistency over the past decade, is an actual functioning government. Since 2021 alone, the country has cycled through five caretaker cabinets,
On the evening of December 1, 2025, Bulgaria witnessed its most significant popular mobilization since the 1990s
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.
The term “Iron Curtain” was not coined by Winston Churchill, but it was he who turned it into one of the symbols of the latter part of the twentieth century by using it in his famous Fulton speech of 1946.
Hardly anything could be said in defense of the new government's ideological profile, which is quite blurry; at the same time much can be disputed about its future "pro-European" stance.
Look who is lurking again behind the corner – the tandem of Advent International and Deutsche Bank, respectively the buyer of the Bulgarian Telecom Company in 2004 and the advisor of the Bulgarian government in the sweetest deal of the past decade, seem t
We have seen many times this circus which is being played out during the entire week and it only shows one thing - there is no need of a caretaker government in Bulgaria.
You have certainly noticed how many times President Rosen Plevneliev used the phrase “a broad-minded person” referring to almost every member of his caretaker government.
What happened and is still happening in Varna, I mean the floodwaters, can happen in any part of the world.
The Bulgarian banking system, usually given as an example of stability, is being subjected in the last days to an unprecedented and - I would say - unexpected ordeal.
We in Bulgaria know November 10th (1989), and keep repeating it, though the real date is June 4th.
Last week's official start of the campaign for the European Parliament elections in Bulgaria, opened the floodgates of hysterical anti-EU rhetoric.
On the day of the announcement of Kotooshu's retirement from Japan's professional sumo, it seems like a good time to reflect a bit on his career.
A week before the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, I recall watching the television debates regarding what we can expect from the big event.
Mediocrities with huge salaries, latter-day Roman senators with lavish expenses.
Bulgaria's Ludogorets Razgrad stunned European football experts and fans with their performance in this season's Europa League.
Last Sunday, protesters outside the president's office in Kiev tried to break the line of riot police guarding the building by charging them with a bulldozer.
The EU’s failure to secure an Association Agreement with Ukraine and the stormy events that followed show nothing less than cracks in the very substance of the Union.
When citizens take the law into their own hands, it is a clear sign that the foundations of a democratic system are shaking.
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