Bulgaria: time to tackle the nightmare next door
By Jane Whyatt
Emotions ran high at ECPMF’s Expert Talk on Bulgaria, held in Brussels on 25 January. There was a moving testimony from ECPMF’s Journalist-in-Residence (JiR) Dimitar Stoyanov, followed by a heated debate about the dire state of media freedom in the country.
Statue of Sveta Sofia (Sacred Wisdom) in the centre of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. (Photo: Jane Whyatt, 2016)
The Balkan country is ranked second worst in the EU, and 109th out of 180 nations in the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index. Since it joined the European Union in 2007, Bulgaria…
