For or against the revocation of summer time. This was the topic of the simulation of a TV debate, which involved the participants in the National Program during the third day of the last training course. Before moving on to the debate with arguments, the trainees listened with interest the journalist Mr. Boyko Vassilev. The […]

The second day of the fourth course of the National Program “Governing Skills”, which is being held at Riu Hotel in Pravets, started with the “Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development Program 2030”. What is development policy and how it has developed during the years the trainees learned from Prof. Petranka Fileva and Dr. Ralitsa Kovacheva […]

The Irish politician and a human rights activist, Senator David Norris was a special guest in the “30 minutes in the company of …” section at the end of the first day of the fourth course of the National Program “Governing Skills”. The famous politician welcomed the trainees with a few words in Bulgarian and […]

The Bulgarian MEPs Mr. Vladimir Urutchev and Mr. Momchil Nekov were special guest lecturers and master of ateliers in the National Program of the Bulgarian School of Politics. On the first day of the fourth course they introduced the trainees to the work of the European Parliament, the complex system for making European policies and […]

With a lecture delivered by the President of the Department of International Relations and Director of the Center for International and European Studies at the Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Prof. Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, started the last, fourth, course of the National Program. In front of the participants – political and civic leaders – Prof. Triantaphyllou talked about the […]

What is the strategic vision for the development of Bulgarian energy? This was the topic of the panel “Long-term Strategies of Bulgaria”, with which finished the third course of the National Program “Governing Skills”. It was attended by the energy experts Valentin Nikolov, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy, Yavor Kuyumdjiev, a member […]

The topic “for” or “against” the ratification of the Istanbul Convention was also debated in the training room of the current cohort of the National Program of the Bulgarian School of Politics. Simulation of a radio debate was one of the tasks for the participants during the third day of the third course of the […]

With a lecture on the importance and priorities of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, started the third day of the third course of the National Program “Governing Skills” Guest speakers were the Deputy Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency Monika Panayotova, who is a graduate of the Bulgarian School of Politics and […]

The current cohort of the National Program of the Bulgarian School of Politics had a conversation with the politician and person Tomislav Donchev. The Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria was a guest in the “30 minutes in the company of …” on the second day of the third training course. “Approximately 10 years have passed […]

On the basis of sociological data and their own knowledge of the economic and political situation in Bulgaria and Europe, the participants in the National Program “Governing Skills” had to formulate priorities for political parties from different parts of the political spectrum. The learning task was a part of their work in small groups during […]