Завръщането на България в Европа – под сянката на русофилската традиция
Bulgaria’s Return to Europe: Under the Shadow of the Russophile Tradition

Summary/Abstract: The main specificity of the Bulgarian participation in the process of the EU Eastern enlargement of the EU - is the slow, inconsistent and limited progress in the implementation of pre-accession conditionality. The paper aims to argument the existence of a substantial but relatively neglected source for this characteristic -- the sustainability of a rusophilian tradition in Bulgarian political life. In pursuance of the stated objective, the text is organized in three main parts -- analysis of the origin and political design of some basic aspects of the rusophilian idea; tracking their communist renovation; argumentation of the sustainability of their political use after 1989. This sustainability casts doubt on the first postcommunist government’s declared prioritization of integration in Western European organizations in Bulgarian foreign policy, giving it a formal, largely without real content character.

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