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A petition addressed to the Treblinka Museum calling for the removal of a stone memorial with the word Bulgaria on it, and an apology from the museum for the word being there as a “grave mistake”, has raised the ire of two academics who supposedly signed it but did not. The petition is not backed by any leader of a representative organisation of the Bulgarian Jewish community. It says that it is signed by “Bulgarian citizens and recognised (current and future) opinion leaders”. Given that Professor Todor Tanev and Associate Professor Albena Taneva have made it clear they did not sign ...

Corruption and a lack of media freedom in Bulgaria are “serious challenges to the US-Bulgaria bilateral relationship,” according to a joint statement by US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (Democrat) and Jim Rich, one of the committee’s senior Republicans. “The persistent corruption, declining media freedom, politicisation of the judiciary, and other threats to the rule of law pose serious challenges to the US-Bulgaria bilateral relationship,” read the joint statement. The senators also highlighted that Bulgaria fairs worst among EU countries in Transparenc...

Democracy Doesn’t Happen Overnight December 17, 2020  • Sheri Berman Daniel Mitov, Bulgaria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Marwan Muasher, Jordan’s former foreign minister, recently joined the Aspen Ministers Forum Fireside Chat series. Their dialogue provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on how a well-functioning democracy emerges. Bulgaria was part of the “third wave” of democracy that swept the globe at the end of the 20th century. One part of the globe seemingly immune to this wave was the Middle East, which belatedly experienced its own democratic uprising...