Vessela Tcherneva

The EU has dodged a bullet in the Bulgarian elections with the victory of former prime minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party.

View from Sofia: Fear and loathing

Fear. The word travelled across Bulgarian media and between the lines of reports and political speeches in the days after

Ukraine has not crossed its Rubicon. The most important and urgent decisions for its future, both internal and external, are

The Bulgarian debate on sanctions, and on relations between the European Union and Russia more generally, has been coloured by

For most of 2014, Bulgaria’s foreign policy was extremely passive. The prime minister carried out no diplomatic visits in the

There’s this thing about peripheries. They are either peaceful and godforsaken (and thus ignored) or they are volatile and challenging

“Failed you have”. The protest poster depicting Yoda of Star Wars is ironic but these short words represent the reverse