Bulgarian protests
On June 14th, the Bulgarian society erupted against the arrogant proposal a controversial figure from the Bulgarian transition to be appointed head of the powerful State Agency of National Security (DANS). This has unleashed the discontent of tens of thousands Bulgarians who gather together punctually at 1830 every day to protest and demand the government to resign. In this subject euinside follows and analyses the developments in the 'Bulgarian Summer'.
| © EPPA Sad Country for the European Democracy*
In Bulgaria, we often say "in a European way" to show something is done as it should be done, that it is normal, the right thing. The European way is a symbol of purity, impartiality, principles, rule of law. However, there is a huge risk that purity to be stained by the desire for more seats in ...
Jose Manuel Barroso, Herman Van Rompuy, Viktor Yanukovych | © Council of the EUBulgaria Is Only an Illustration of the Process of Restoration in Eastern Europe
The Croatian daily newspaper Jutarnji list has published today a comment by Hido Biscevic about the protests in Bulgaria and about what actually is behind them in a much broader geographical context. Mr Biscevic is a secretary general of the Regional Cooperation Council, a special coordinator of ...
Magdalina Guenova | © Magdalina GuenovaMagdalina Guenova: In Bulgaria There Is a Pseudo Democracy
The anti-systemic protests in Bulgaria continue. Although they melted in terms of a number of physical participants in them, they got a new impetus with the rebellion of students in several Bulgarian universities. But the protests, as much as they are aimed against the oligarchy and the fact tha ...
| © euinsideOne Hundred Days of Solitude - the Protests in Bulgaria
Sofia for years has been a city of contrasts, of at first glance conflicting cultures. A city of the beautiful and the ugly, of the best from the European and the worst from the Oriental, a city of clean and dirty, of new and old. A city where alongside a Christian church you will see a mosque o ...
Utopia | © Anti-Oligarchic Utopia
"Have you joined the campaign for donation of food products for Bulgaria?", I hear from the evening news programme of the Croatian national TV which has just started. For a whole week now all channels and all the first pages of the newspapers are dealing only with the emergency and unprecedented ...
| © euinsideNon-Stop Elections!
The issue should there be early elections or not as well as when is gaining speed, which is a symptom that we are still not aware of some of the basic elements of democracy. In a well established democracy where the mafia is not a leading political factor, bribed media do not write society's age ...
| © Yvo BojkovIt's Time To Specify Election Mandates
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, subjected to mass protests for more than a month now because of obvious connections with the oligarchy and for serving private interests, refuses to resign with the argument that he has just been elected (in May) by Bulgarian voters and will fini ...
| © Ivo MirchevThe Beauty vs the Beast: A Clash of Civilisations?
In 1993, Samuel Huntington came up with the theory of an upcoming clash of civilisations. In 2013, that clash is a fact in Bulgaria. The clash is between the Beauty and the Beast - between the civilisation of the "beautiful" and the civilisation of the ugly mafia. The political scientist Hunting ...
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