Ivo Iliev 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Profile picture
PhD at @EUI_EU, visiting at @ceu | Political economy | Eastern Europe & EU Happy owner of 3 🎸, 3 🚲 and 0 🚗
Jan 18, 2023 18 tweets 7 min read
In the early stages of #Russia's invasion, critically important help for #Ukraine has come from an unexpected place: #Bulgaria, led by PM @KirilPetkov. I provide some additional context about this curious report in the 🧵below. 1/
politico.eu/article/bulgar… One thing ahead: the title is way too bombastic (“secretly saved”?) and full of platitudes that are irrelevant to the topic (“EU’s poorest country”). But what can you do, we live in the age of #clickbait. Apart from this dubitable editorial choice, it is an informative piece. 2/