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If 2017 was the year of common European defence, 2018 emerges as the year of common foreign policy. The worsening conflict in the Middle East, trade shoot-outs, tightening of the illiberal belt around the EU, as well as the transformation of key western allies into adversaries are factors that a ...

Negotiations on the most important appointments in the EU show that the era of Adenauer-ism, of the culture of consensus, and the common European interest is about to go extinct. For the first time since the EU has been created, finding a compromise is so difficult and at the same time, so ...

The war in Syria is now entirely dominating the debates in the EU after the use of chemical weapons in Douma and the subsequent coordinated and targeted air operation of the US, UK and France against facilities that produce or process chemical weapons. The issue changed completely the agenda of ...

Some say that the EU-Western Balkans summit was a historic one. Others say it was successful. Without necessarily both claims to be false, their validity is wrong. It is explained that the summit was historic because it was the first in 15 years. The last summit with the Western Balkans (in the ...

The attack on the UK has put Russia right after Brexit and Donald Trump as another strong driver of European unification. Britain's decision to leave the EU united the member states in an unprecedented manner. They confirmed their vows not only to continue with the project but also to deepen it. ...

From dealing with national party politics to leaving the seat vacant, Sofia is far from deciding who should replace Mariya Gabriel.

Rule of law crisis bursts into the open in a wild public confrontation between chief prosecutor and ex-PM Boyko Borissov.

Replacing a prosecutor general whose inadequacy for the job became plain to see following an alleged assassination attempt should be the first step in reforming the Bulgarian judiciary, writes Nick Kochan.  

EU Research Commissioner Mariya Gabriel resigned her Brussels post to focus on trying to form Bulgaria’s next coalition government, the European Commission confirmed. Gabriel was called up to Sofia last week to help her centre-right party GERB form a governing coalition after it won 26.5% of the vote in a snap election last month. Today, she informed the Commission that she is getting a formal mandate from the Bulgarian President to lead the political negotiations in Sofia.

Gunning to become Bulgaria’s prime minister, the EU’s research commissioner has a mixed record and reputation in Brussels.