Translated by Nelly Tsekova

Nelly Tsekova is a student of Public Policy at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She is member of JEF-Bulgaria and has done internships at the World Bank and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria. Her interests include any EU-related topic especially foreign policy and education.

Articles de cet auteur (12)

Syriza’s victory in Greece : a historic change for the EU ?

The radical left party Syriza won the parliamentary elections in Greece yesterday. This victory is historic and will have consequences for the European Union. However, they will perhaps not be as important as expected. This morning, according to the latest results of the Greek elections the (…)

vendredi 6 mars 2015

The return of Central Europe

Often wrongly called Eastern countries, or ex- Soviet Union countries or the post-communist countries, the countries of Central Europe, namely Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and additionally Poland and Austria, struggle to reposition themselves where they really are : at the heart of (…)

jeudi 20 mars 2014

The 2014 European elections : true hope for democracy or fear in the face of nationalists ?

The European Parliament elections in 2014 will allow for a democratic breakthrough if all possibilities offered by the Lisbon Treaty are applied. The President of the European Commission would then be chosen from a democratically elected political majority. But the initial enthusiasm is (…)

samedi 15 mars 2014

Let’s rejoice in the formation of an anti-European alliance !

While the European elections are approaching fast, it is with great joy that I learned of the birth of a large pan-European project alliance of major anti-European political parties initiated by the National Front of Marine Le Pen and the Dutch Party of freedom’s Geert Wilders. I send them my (…)

mardi 7 janvier 2014

The EU needs the USA

In the last couple of years, we witnessed a change in the international relations towards the Asian continent. Within this context, the USA doubled their efforts to face the geopolitical challenges in Asia. Has the EU still a role to play in the international scene ? Can the EU still be of (…)

dimanche 28 avril 2013

Game Over for the EU ?

Cyber defense comprises the means given to a state to protect all of its activities and networks regulating sovereign services such as defense, energy and transport. Nowadays the development of the Internet and the increasing interconnection of networks poses a new challenge to the EU : (…)

mardi 12 mars 2013

In defense of real European parties

“We need a union based on citizens”, declared Guy Verhofstadt after Barrosso’s speech on the State of the EU. It’s been 60 years since Europe embarked on the way to unification and although it’s clear that great steps have been taken since 1952, the political project has had a difficult (…)

mercredi 26 décembre 2012

The European Empire, the people and the democracy

The debates on European democratization are as powerful as ever. At the Amsterdam summit, Lionel Jospin, when noted that we should try to find ways to overcome the democratic deficit, answered “ok, what if we talk about the challenge of democracy instead”. Now it’s possible to analyze the issue (…)

lundi 10 octobre 2011

Nuclear risk management : is Europe ready ?

After the events in Japan, the issue of preventing risks in nuclear safety is once again on the agenda. Debate resumed exacerbated fears : how do we cope with it in the West ? Nuclear Safety : the French way EDF, the nuclear global leading operator being French, necessarily implies to get (…)

mardi 19 avril 2011

Red card to Hungary for its stronghold on the media

Hungary took the rotating presidency of the EU on January 1st 2011, just as a controversial law on the institutional control of the media came into force. Viktor Orban’s government thus marked the beginning of the EU Presidency through legalizing a censorship that violates the Treaty on European (…)

jeudi 14 avril 2011

The Hope

The Tunisian revolution took place, and brought with it it its share of hopes and future plans. In an article from April 23rd, we raised the question of the integration of Maghreb countries in the European Union. In our article, we stated that the geographical or cultural arguments for (…)

vendredi 25 mars 2011

Europe seen from across the Atlantic : “The EU is an example, (but) not a model”

Interview with Dany Deschênes, analyst at the Department of Planning and Policy of the Ministry of Public Security, Quebec, research assistant at the International Peace and Security Program of the Quebec Institute for International Studies and PhD candidate in the Department of Political (…)

dimanche 6 mars 2011