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Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Citizens of Bulgaria and Romania receive full rights on the EU labour market

Migration is a serious challenge for Bulgaria and Romania in both domestic and foreign policy. It contributes to a drain on the qualified labour force.
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Bucharest the prime ministers of China and the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe meet

So far the intensification of political contacts has not been accompanied by the dynamic influx of Chinese investment which the region’s governments expected.
Analyses | | Kamil Całus, Tomasz Dąborowski

The president of Romania supports unification with Moldova

President Basescu announced in a TV interview that following its accession to NATO and the EU, Bucharest’s new major political project should be unification with Moldova.
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Szymon Kardaś

Russia offers a reminder of South Stream in Bulgaria

Russia has used the construction launch to demonstrate that it will not relinquish at least partial implementation of the project.
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Andrzej Wilk

Missile shield in central Europe becoming a reality

On 28 October, work started in southern Romania on installing elements of the US missile defence system. It is failure of Russian security policy.  
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

A rising wave of refugees in Bulgaria

According to the Bulgarian deputy prime minister and interior minister Tsvetlin Yovchev, from January to the end of September this year the number of illegal immigrants detained at the Bulgarian border increased sevenfold in comparison to…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Romania ecological protests cause tensions within the government coalition

Protests in Romania against the plans to launch a gold mine in the Transylvanian commune Rosia Montana have been mounting  over the past two weeks. The Save Rosia Montana campaign has been the most rapidly developing Romanian protest…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Romania has a new IMF agreement

On 31 July Romania signed a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union and the World Bank on an economic program supported by a two-year loan worth 4 billion euros. This is now the third loan that…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Bulgaria forecasts for the central-left government

On 29 May, Bulgaria’s parliament passed a vote of confidence for the government led by Plamen Oresharski, an economist linked to socialists. His cabinet will consist of non-partisan technocrats and politicians from the Bulgarian Socialist…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Romania increasingly compatible cohabitation

In mid-May, the centre-right President Traian Basescu authorised Prime Minister Victor Ponta to represent the country at the European Council summit on 22 May. Up to that point, the question of who was to participate at international…