Southeastern Europe

Cross-border cities are engines of transformation

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Cross-border cities are engines of transformation

Vladimir Mitev 16 July, 2025

A podcast, recorded literary on the Friendship Bridge at Giurgiu-Ruse, reflects on change in Southeastern Europe, on...

Alexandru Drăgulin: President Nicușor Dan’s priorities will be economic recovery and democratic resilience

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Alexandru Drăgulin: President Nicușor Dan’s priorities will be economic recovery and democratic resilience

Vladimir Mitev 29 May, 2025

In foreign policy, Romania will continue infrastructure projects with its regional neighbours, and in the Western Balkans...

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

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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...

The contours of post-liberalism in the West and in Southeast Europe: a conversation with David Bisset

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The contours of post-liberalism in the West and in Southeast Europe: a conversation with David Bisset

Vladimir Mitev 25 April, 2025

As the centre of the world system implodes, the former internal periphery of the EU - Central...

The Trump 2.0 times as seen from a Bulgarian-Romanian perspective: while borders and divisions in the West are rising, in the EU’s Southeast the logic of the center is being affirmed

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The Trump 2.0 times as seen from a Bulgarian-Romanian perspective: while borders and divisions in the West are rising, in the EU’s Southeast the logic of the center is being affirmed

Vladimir Mitev 7 February, 2025

An optimistic take on the shocks in international relations of the last years, which continue with the...

Alexandru-Ionuț Drăgulin: Full accession to the Schengen Area can transform Romania, Bulgaria and their region

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Alexandru-Ionuț Drăgulin: Full accession to the Schengen Area can transform Romania, Bulgaria and their region

Vladimir Mitev 16 January, 2025

Interview with the Romanian Diplomatic Institute's expert on the prospects of both countries and their bilateral and...

Paul Hurmuz: The time is coming for Romania and Bulgaria to become more important players in Southeastern Europe

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Paul Hurmuz: The time is coming for Romania and Bulgaria to become more important players in Southeastern Europe

Vladimir Mitev 16 November, 2024

The Romanian defense expert comments on the geopolitical dilemmas facing Romania and its region in anticipation of...

Southeastern Europe’s affirmation: neither technocracy, nor sovereignism, but people’s agency

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Southeastern Europe’s affirmation: neither technocracy, nor sovereignism, but people’s agency

Vladimir Mitev 10 October, 2023

Vladimir Mitev’s Maynooth University take on the people-driven Europeanization in Southeastern Europe as way of its people...

Codru Vrabie: Agency in Southeastern Europe should be more related to bridge than to equilibrium

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Codru Vrabie: Agency in Southeastern Europe should be more related to bridge than to equilibrium

Vladimir Mitev 26 September, 2023

The fifth part of the podcast with Codru Vrabie deals with agency in Southeastern Europe, with the...

Animest The Romanian festival of cinema for the young people
Blogul lui Codru Vrabie (Codru Vrabie's blog) A blog by a leading Romanian expert on good governance – Un blog al unui expert român de renume în domeniul bunei guvernări – Блог на водещ румънски експерт по добро управление
Bodil Dimitar Sabev’s blog on economy, ecology and society – Blogul lui Dimitar Săbev despre economie, ecologie și societate – Блогът на Димитър Събев за икономика, екология и общество
Bulgarikon A Romanian shares his discoveries about Bulgaria… Un român împărtășește descoperirile sale despre Bulgaria… Румънец споделя откритията си за България
Centrul de Studii asupra Orientului Mijlociu și Mediteranei (Univeristatea Babeș-Bolyai) – The Center for Middle Eastern and Mediterrainean Studies (UBB) The leading Romanian academic center on Middle Eastern Studies
Cross-border Talks (site) A Poland-based site, which is reflecting on international politics and social issues, with an emphasis on regional, EU and Third World matters…
Cross-border Talks (Substack) Cross-border Talks’s Substack newsletter. Buletinul informativ Substack al Cross-border Talks. Нюзлетърът на Cross-border Talks в Substack
Cross-border Talks (YouTube) Cross-border Talks’ YouTube channel
Decât o Revistă (DoR) Romanian storytelling magazine (non-fiction) – Revista românească de storytelling (non-fiction) – Румънското списание, което разказва истории
Градското списание (Urban Magazine) Списание за градските хора и за градската култура – O revistă despre oamenii din oraș și despre cultura cetățenească
Център за изкуство и култура "БЛОК 14 " (Center for Art and Culture "BLOCK 14") Културният център на младите в Русе – Centrul Cultural al Tineretului din Ruse- The Cultural Center of the Young People in Ruse
International Society Elias Canetti The host of the Austrian library in Ruse, Bulgaria
Marginalia The Bulgarian site for a human rights-based world
Oamenii Dreptății (People of Justice) The civil society show in Romania – Spectacolul societății civile în România – Шоуто на гражданското общество в Румъния
Performantica TEDxBrașov – TEDxБрашов
Peripheral Vision Din perirferia în căutarea lumii – un blog despre teoria socială, problemele socialе şi idei, editat de un cetăţean scotian în România – От периферията в търсене на света – социална теория
Post/h/um – Jurnal de studii postumaniste (Journal for Post-humanist Studies) A Romanian progressive journal
Pro Democrația A leading liberal society in Romania – O societate liberală de frunte în România – Водещо либерално общество в Румъния
Radio Bulgaria (English) News about Bulgaria in English language
Radio Bulgaria în limba română Știri despre Bulgaria în limba română
Radio România Actualități (Radio Romania News) News about Romania and the world in Romanian language – Știri despre România și lumea în limba română – Новини за Румъния и света на румънски език
Ruse Summer Free Tour Turul grătuit al oraşului Ruse – Безплатният тур на Русе
The Persian Bridge of Friendship
The Persian Bridge of Friendship's Substack The Persian Bridge of Friendship’s Substack newsletter – Buletinul Podului Persan al Prieteniei – Нюзлетърът на Персийския мост на приятелството в Substack