Category: Bulgarian politics
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The two chairs
Rumen Radev is trying to sit on two chairs at once, and so far he’s managed to annoy the people holding both of them. In Paris, Radev declined Macron’s invitation to the Coalition of the Willing and declared Bulgaria doesn’t belong in a format that keeps arming Ukraine. A day later his foreign minister backed…
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GERB wants a national ID app to “protect” your kids
Opposition party GERB has proposed banning social media for anyone under 16, with a mandatory “digital wallet” app to verify every user’s age before they can even sign up. Miss the age cut and your account gets shut down, VPN or not. MP Kostadin Angelov is calling it protection from a “digital addiction.” Starting with…
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Was I wrong about Radev?
Two months ago, I wrote that the lazy Western take on Rumen Radev, “the next Orban,” missed the point. Bulgaria already has its Orban, and his name is Boyko Borissov. The better question, I argued, was whether Radev could be our Péter Magyar: the popular outsider who finally breaks the corrupt system from the position…