PhD (thesis ‘The Role of the Internet Technologies and Social Media For The Civic Participation In The Protests Between June 2013 and July 2014 in Bulgaria’) is a part-time lecturer at the Sofia University. Team member of the Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia (HSSF), with a focus on digital media, computer-aided content analysis and software. Author of Analysis of the Media Reactions on the Government’s Annual National Security Report for 2016 (2018).
National populism in North Macedonia is kept in check by the European consensus. Macedonism runs deep, however, and has the potential to erupt. The resumption of the EU accession process is likely to ensure that, unlike its neighbour Bulgaria, North Macedonia stays on a democratic course.
