anti-corruption Archives

After Iohannis’s stabilocracy: anti-corruption protests bring polarization back to Romania proteste-anticoruptie-romania-1200x675

After Iohannis’s stabilocracy: anti-corruption protests bring polarization back to Romania

Vladimir Mitev 17 December, 2025

Nova News interview with Vladimir Mitev about the film made by the investigative website Recorder and the...

Bulgarian politics, oligarchy, and popular discontent protests-sofia-1200x675

Bulgarian politics, oligarchy, and popular discontent

Vladimir Mitev 16 December, 2025

Interview with journalist Vladimir Mitev on the latest protests in Bulgaria

Iulian Mareș: Romania has chosen the European core. Now Southeast Europe must choose where to go

Vladimir Mitev 20 May, 2025

Newly elected President Nicușor Dan will have to rely on the reformist wings of the old parties...

A political era is ending in Romania. The next one could be even worse

Andrei Gudu 14 May, 2025

Romanians need imagination and will to think beyond the heritage and presidential model of Băsescu

What have we not understood in Bulgaria about Romanian anti-corruption?

Vladimir Mitev 12 April, 2024

Episode of the juridical podcast of the Bulgarian Institute for Legal Initiatives, dedicated to the Romanian experience...

Codru Vrabie: Romania’s anti-corruption was problematic, but its non-existence today creates danger

Vladimir Mitev 24 September, 2023

The second part of the podcast on social change and agency in Southeastern Europe deals with Romania...

Bulgarians both look for capitalism with modern face and are skeptical towards change The façade of a building in Sofia

Bulgarians both look for capitalism with modern face and are skeptical towards change

Vladimir Mitev 15 November, 2021

The 14 November 2021 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria gave political space to a new party that promises...

The Bulgarian middle class wants to be getting empowered by the anti-corruption fight 'Let's break the mafia state' — a poster from the anti-corruption protests in Bulgaria in 2020.

'Let's break the mafia state' — a poster from the anti-corruption protests in Bulgaria in 2020.

The Bulgarian middle class wants to be getting empowered by the anti-corruption fight

Vladimir Mitev 14 October, 2020

The Barricade’s Vladimir Mitev was interviewed by the Danish organisation Democracy in Europe on the Bulgarian protests:...

Mutual suspicion hinders the appearance of a post-transition vision in Bulgaria Two people accusing one another (an illustrative photo which stylisizes a dispute)

Two people accusing one another (an illustrative photo which stylisizes a dispute)

Mutual suspicion hinders the appearance of a post-transition vision in Bulgaria

Vladimir Mitev 5 August, 2020

A live interview with Vladimir Mitev about the escalation of the Bulgarian protests in the last week,...

anti-corruption

Change, stagnation, and a new beginning in the Romanian justice system (from the late 1990s to 2026)

After Iohannis’s stabilocracy: anti-corruption protests bring polarization back to Romania

Bulgarian politics, oligarchy, and popular discontent

Iulian Mareș: Romania has chosen the European core. Now Southeast Europe must choose where to go

A political era is ending in Romania. The next one could be even worse

What have we not understood in Bulgaria about Romanian anti-corruption?

Codru Vrabie: Romania’s anti-corruption was problematic, but its non-existence today creates danger

Bulgarians both look for capitalism with modern face and are skeptical towards change

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