EU enlargement is making headlines once more, with Ukraine — yet, unnoticed by many, European integration is expanding its territorial remit in other, equally significant ways.
On 1 January 2023, the eurozone will welcome Croatia as its 20th member. This raises questions about the other candidate, Bulgaria.
Once the frontrunner, the Bulgarians lost steam after a turbulent 2021 and three elections. A four-way reformist coalition cobbled together with great effort collapsed af...
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Kiril Kossev is an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The views expressed are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the position of the OECD or its member states.
Dimitar Bechev teaches at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies University of Oxford, and is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. He is the founder of the European Policy Institute in Sofia.
Kiril Kossev is an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The views expressed are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the position of the OECD or its member states.