Russia’s Energy Monopoly Topples the Bulgarian Government

04-03-2013

 

Year: 2013

IRIS Strategic Papers Collection. eISSN: 2815-5386


* The present paper has been originally published at The German Marshal Fund of the United States blog at http://www.gmfus.org/blog/2013/03/04/russia’s-energy-monopoly-topples-bulgarian-government

 

 

Dr. Ognyan Minchev

 

Another government on Europe’s periphery has collapsed under pressure from its angry citizens. On February 21, the Bulgarian government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov resigned following large-scale public demonstrations against electricity prices. Borisov and his center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party...

 

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