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Photo: BLACK SEA (Feb 6, 2018) Romanian minesweeper ROS Lt. Lupu Dinescu conducts minesweeping operations of shore Constanta while taking part of SNMCMG2 Passex with Romanian Navy. SNMCMG2 led by HMS Enterprise is currently sailling in the Black Sea as part of NATO routine presence. SNMCMG2 consists of flagship Royal Navy survey ship HMS Enterprise, Romanian minesweeper ROS Lt. Lupu Dinescu and Turkish minehunter TCG Akcay. Credit: NATO/CPO FRAN C. Valverde

10 Ways to Boost NATO’s Black Sea Defenses

April 5, 2022
By Lauren Speranza and Ben Hodges

The alliance’s response to the war in Ukraine must include a wider reset of its posture in the Black Sea.

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Photo: Boyko Borissov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria in Sofia June 18, 2020. Credit: xThomasxImo/photothek.netx via REUTERS

Bulgaria: The Skull’s Revenge

March 22, 2022
By Spasimir Domaradzki

The new government faces an uphill battle in its efforts to reform a broken justice system, made worse by divisions over Ukraine policy.

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Photo: Bulgarian farmers attend a protest in central Sofia November 7, 2008. Bulgarian grain producers protested on Friday over unpaid subsidies and low grain retail prices. Banner reads "Enough lies". Credit: REUTERS/Oleg Popov

Bulgaria: Third Time Lucky

November 29, 2021
By Ben Dubow

Most Bulgarians regard their political class as deeply corrupt. That is something a new government and a more savvy European Union need to fix

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210628-M-JQ356-1062 OLESHKY SANDS, Ukraine (June 28, 2021) members from NATO allied and partner nations raise their individual nation’s flag at the opening ceremony of the land portion of exercise Sea Breeze, June 28, 2021, in Oleshky sands, Ukraine. Exercise Sea Breeze is a multinational maritime exercise cohosted by U.S. Sixth Fleet and the Ukrainian Navy in the Black Sea since 1997. Sea Breeze 2021 is designed to enhance interoperability of participating nations and strengthen maritime security and peace within the region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacqueline Parsons)

Black Sea Security: Reviving US Policy Toward the Region

October 27, 2021
By Alina Polyakova

CEPA President and CEO, Dr. Alina Polyakova, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on US policy toward the Black Sea Region

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Photo credit: ThisisEngineering RAEng.

Bulgaria’s Battle for Brains

August 9, 2021
By Ognyan Georgiev

The winners of this sudden back-wave of migration will be cities (not countries) that are able to attract and retain newcomers.

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Photo: North Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski and Bulgarian President Rumen Radev get on Bulgarian presidential airplane at Skopje airport ahead of a joint trip to Rome to visit the grave of St Cyril, in Skopje, North Macedonia May 26, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

What’s in a Language? That Which We Call a Dialect

June 30, 2021
By Kaitlyn Lee

Language is an incendiary issue, especially in countries whose current iterations are relatively modern

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Photo: Protestors hold a banner which reads, "Putin - KGB oligarch", during a protest in Sofia, January 17, 2008. Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek closer energy ties with Bulgaria during a visit to Sofia starting on Thursday, but faces protests over the former Soviet satellite state's growing economic contacts with Moscow. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. Credit: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

U.S. Bulgaria Sanctions — a Warning Shot Across the EU’s Backyard

June 28, 2021
By Mallie Kermiet

Until now, the U.S. had done little to combat the growing consolidation of power among corrupt oligarchs in EU nations

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Photo: A man walks past a wall with election posters of the ruling centre-right GERB party and the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, in the village of Vinogradets, Bulgaria, March 28, 2021. Picture taken March 28, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

Bulgaria’s Stalemate May Yet Be Broken

June 9, 2021
By Spasimir Domaradzki

However, the political waters are now muddier

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Photo: Boyko Borissov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria in Sofia June 18, 2020. Credit: xThomasxImo/photothek.netx via REUTERS

Skull Signals a Warning for Bulgaria’s Borisov

April 1, 2021
By Spasimir Domaradzki

The last two years were not easy for Boyko Borisov, Bulgaria’s long-serving prime minister.

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The Bulgarian Head of State is on a visit to Romania to take part in the Three Seas initiative summit. September 18, 2018

From Sea to Shining Seas

March 5, 2021
By Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Pavel Valnev and CEPA

An initiative to build Europe’s potential and shut out the autocrats

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