Will Bosnian ethnoelites take heed, finally?
Stefan Ralchev comments here on the mass popular action in Bosnia in June 2013 and the failure of Bosnia's ethnic leaders to grasp the message of the civic process.
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Коментар на Огнян Минчев относно политическата и обществена обстановка в България от последните няколко дни е достъпен тук.
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Serbia and Kosovo reached a historic deal for normalisation of relations on 19 April in Brussels, opening the way for closer EU integration for both Belgrade and Prishtina. An analysis of the implications of the Brussels agreement for Serbia, Kosovo, the Balkan region and the EU itself by Stefan Ralchev, Research Associate at IRIS, is available here.
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Dr. Ognyan Minchev gave an interview to International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea on April 9, 2013.
Click here to read the English version
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In this short analysis, Stefan Ralchev looks at the recent relative successes of EU foreign policy in the Balkans and urges a more consistent involvement by Brussels (available here).
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Stefan Ralchev discusses the recent anti-Bulgarian and -Romanian hysteria in British society vis-a-vis potential immigration waves from these countries once EU labour restrictions are down in 2014 amidst the general euroscepticism moods in the UK (available here).
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A new publication by Dr Ognyan Minchev for the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).
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Изложенията на участниците в конференцията "АЕЦ Белене: между референдума и стратегическата рационалност"
ИРМИ публикува изложенията на участниците в конференцията 'АЕЦ "Белене": между референдума и стратегическата рационалност', която Институтът организира на 19 септември 2012 г. в София. Докладите на Илиян Василев, Иван Хиновски, Георги Касчиев и Пламен Цветанов са достъпни тук.
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Конференцията "АЕЦ 'Белене': между референдума и стратегическата рационалност", организирана от Института за регионални и международни изследвания (ИРМИ) с подкрепата на Фондация 'Америка за България" на 19 септември в София, предизвика широк интерес в българската общественост. Освен че участие взеха утвърдени експерти, политици и дипломати, присъстваха и голям брой представители на медиите.
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The Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) organised on 19 September a conference/discussion on the economic, technological and geostrategic aspects of the recently revived project for a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria in Belene (in Northern Bulgaria, at the river Danube). The Russo-Bulgarian project had its origins back in the 1980s but was frozen and brought to life again by the government of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the early 2000s. It was strongly pushed forward by the subsequent Socialist-led government in 2005-09. After the current centre-right GERB party cabinet suspended the project in March 2012 for being economically and ecologically untenable and for presenting real security risks for the country and its population, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, now in opposition, collected over 700,000 signatures with the aim to call a referendum ‘for’ or ‘against’ Belene.
The......
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Институтът за регионални и международни изследвания организира конференция на тема: "АЕЦ „Белене": Между референдума и стратегическата рационалност".
Дискусията цели да се поставят отново на обществено обсъждане технологичните, икономически и геостратегически аспекти на проекта за строеж на втора ядрена централа в България. Темата ще бъде разгледана в контекста на отказа на правителството да реализира проекта, на подготовката на евентуален референдум и на предявения иск от страна на руския......
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IRIS presented on Friday, 16 March, in Belgrade its latest annual study, The Western Balkans in 2010/11: Departures in Democratisation and European Integration in Europe’s Southeast (the study is available here).
The event, hosted by the Balkan Trust for Democracy (a programme of the German Marshall Fund of the United States), included a presentation of the study’s main findings by IRIS’s Dr. Ognyan Minchev, Stefan Ralchev and Goran Stojkovski and a lively discussion involving representatives of the local policy community, government, EU ambassadors......
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Dr. Ognyan Minchev gave an interview to Bloomberg agency on Sept. 17 focused on the issues of Belene nuclear power plant project. The major obstacles to the project and the concerns of Bulgarian public of a potential harm on the national interest with the construction of the Belene power plant were defined in detail in the interview with the Bloomberg representative Ms. Bauerova.
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