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This is the text of an open letter signed by more than 60 prominent Europeans, all Council Members of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), calling on the new EU leadership […]
It is a battle for historical truth, a battle against fake news, a battle against Holocaust distortion, and it is far from over. A battle provoked, in part, by a […]
By Irit Lilian, Ambassador of the State of Israel to Bulgaria Later this month, we will commemorate the victims of the terrorist attack in Sarafovo. Seven years have passed; the […]
It was an unexpected victory for Angela Merkel. It has been 50 years since we last had a German leading the European Commission, and if confirmed, Merkel ally and fellow […]
Russia is back in big political business. For the first time since the annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the war in eastern Ukraine, Moscow has agreed with the EU […]
It had been a matter of curiousity for me for years, the reason why – in film subtitles and texts of television reports – the D-Day landings had been rendered […]
Somewhere in all the bald statements of the Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office and in the reporting by local media, there is the narrative of a tragedy struggling to emerge. At […]
The presidential elections in North Macedonia last Sunday produced both a winner – pro-EU and pro-Nato candidate Stevo Pendarovski, a member of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) – […]
While its current disposition in Crimea is mainly defensive in nature, Russia’s military build-up on the peninsula could soon turn the Black Sea region into a security black hole. On […]
Irit Lilian, the ambassador of the State of Israel to Bulgaria, has written this as a personal standpoint: What is the colour of fear? How does it look? How does […]
