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BULGARIA: Coalition faces choice of difficulties
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES285986
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Polls suggest the opposition Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation-Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE) will win the parliamentary elections, although the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB284843
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The coalition reshuffle increases Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski’s majority in the 120-strong parliament from 64 to 65 MPs. That may ease the incorporation of a ‘Bulgarian…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB276667
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A combination of factors is driving the rise of the far right: perceptions that authoritarian-inclined elites are competent, the normalisation of authoritarian attitudes among the…
ROMANIA/EU: Government will defy criticism of justice
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES239904
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BULGARIA: Coalition ally will complicate reform agenda
It will change if 50%+1 of the electorate participate and 50%+1 of them approve. The government’s greatest hope for winning the referendum may be to provoke the Internal…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB236620
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This revamped version of the 2017-19 government has the support of just 62 members of the 120-seat parliament. It keeps the same prime minister, Zoran Zaev of the SDSM, and the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB255118
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North Macedonia’s government and EU member states have welcomed a framework proposed in the final days of France’s EU Council presidency for opening EU accession talks with…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB271379
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Both had been in office since 2006, and Mijalkov was seen as indispensable for his control over the country. Along with Gruevski, both are heavily implicated in the wiretap…