Bulgarian election; Socialists, Nationalist and Turks vs. Russian, Turkish and Populist influences

In Bulgaria a snap parliamentary election sees the centre-right GERB party challenged by the socialist BSP. The election was triggered by Rumen Radev's winning presidential bid last November, seeing a Socialist-backed candidate hold the office of president. The thrid election in four years shows the fragility of the standing coalition and indicates the probable fragility…

“Trump tide” hits Europe

The Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos (GEES), a well respected European think thank, in a GEES study on the "New European Right" defined the political situation in Europe as the "new right" and their populist strategies facing of against the "European establishment" and their globalizing, bureaucratic tendencies.