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What should Bulgaria expect from the euro?
It is now clear that euro zone membership has improved the economic performance of new member states
When civic engagement works in Bulgaria
Bulgarians are often said to be insufficiently engaged civically but some cases prove otherwise
Back to basics: Nationalists vs Roma
Now that most asylum seekers have left Bulgaria, far right parties are turning to their favorite scapegoat – the stigmatized Roma minority
Bulgarian parties gear up for election year
The European Parliament elections this spring will be a grand rehearsal for the local elections in the autumn – and possibly a snap vote
Plovdiv is Culture
Bulgaria’s second largest city is co-hosting the European capital of culture in 2019. These are some of the program’s highlights
How the insurance sector avoided a financial crisis
The Bulgarian parliament introduced a temporary limit on the compensation paid for emotional distress in case of road accident fatalities
The autumn of everyone’s discontent
Protests calling for better conditions for disabled people and higher quality public works, through to demands to "change of the system", have rocked Bulgaria over the past three months, but there seems to be little momentum for snap elections just yet
When it walks like corruption, when it quacks like corruption
While the Bulgarian authorities appear to be cracking down on some allegedly corrupt officials and businessmen, oligarchic interests favored by those in power receive a significant economic boost
Bulgarians persistently mistrust institutions
Trust subsides down to a close circle of family and friends, while the public sphere is perceived as alien, unreliable, and potentially threatening
Social bonds disintegrating further
Bulgarians prefer the comfort of their immediate family to the pubcil activism
The unhappiest nation becomes happier
More Bulgarians are coping better with their lives which reflects a new general attitude
The new game in town: normalization
Bulgarian society settles down after the tumultuous transition to democracy
Fast reads
The end of the Council of EU Presidency, the cabinet is already shaking, Desislava Ivancheva, the Bulgarian judiciary
I love the motherland but I hate the state
Bulgarians have a long tradition of mistrusting authority and seeing it as an outside influence, regardless if it is the Ottomans, the Tsar, the Communists or the current democratic regime