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author: Maria Stoeva

Jean-Pierre Martinez: The comic is a way of perceiving a life filled with tragedy

"Through his plays, Jean-Pierre Martinez strives to restore the prestige of comedy as a mirror held out to society" - the playwright's website states. Martinez is the author of 101 comedies performed all over the world, which are studied in French schools..

09.12.24 12:47 |
Luc Levy

Luc Levy on European Dialogues and identity

"What is the European history we share? What are the cultural characteristics and political discourse that shape and sustain the project for a united Europe in Sofia and Paris, in Kiyv and in Warsaw; in Riga and in Budapest, in..

13.06.24 16:55 |

The demonic image of horse rider St. Todor in folk traditions

"In a vast region in northern Bulgaria, St. Todor is somehow perceived as a demonic character... He visited gatherings of unmarried girls, which were prohibited during that period; he acquired the appearance of a young bachelor, but distinguishable by..

23.03.24 07:10 |
San Todor

San Teodoro, el jinete demoníaco

"En una vasta región del norte de Bulgaria, el jinete San Teodoro (San Todor) es conocido como un personaje demoníaco, teniendo definiciones populares tan pintorescas como: el santo vampirizado , endemoniado o diablesco ... San Teodoro..

23.03.24 05:55 |

Radan Kanev on the future EP and the belated European debate in Bulgaria

A few months before the European elections, which will be held throughout the EU in the period June 6 to 9, and in the backdrop of the uncertain political situation in Bulgaria, Radan Kanev, MEP from the EPP group, elected from the DB..

19.03.24 13:21 |
Embajada de Francia en Bulgaria

Joël Meyer, Embajador de Francia: "De cara a Schengen, el vaso está dos tercios lleno"

La carrera diplomática de Joël Meyer, licenciado en literatura griega por el Instituto Nacional de Lenguas y Civilizaciones Orientales de París - uno de los pocos lugares de Francia donde también se enseña búlgaro -, le llevó a Grecia y Chipre, y más..

12.02.24 15:16 |

French Ambassador Joël Meyer: "For Schengen, the glass is 2/3 full"

We meet with the ambassador of France in the sophisticated neo-baroque building of the French embassy on Oborishte street in the center of Sofia. The diplomatic career of Joël Meyer, who graduated in Greek literature at the National Institute of..

12.02.24 13:05 |
The discussion, at the French Institute, on the past and present of dissidence 35 years after the breakfast with Mitterrand. L to R: journalist Koprinka Chervenkova, Michel Eltchaninoff, Luc Lévy, director of the French Institute

35 years after the breakfast with François Mitterrand in Sofia: Interview with philosopher Michel Eltchaninoff

At the end of 1988 and the beginning of 1989, the newly elected president of France François Mitterrand went to several capitals of the changing Eastern block. After travelling to Czechoslovakia and before going on to Warsaw, Mitterrand came to..

19.01.24 16:26 |

The French Institute in Bulgaria celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Breakfast with Mitterrand 

On 19 January 1989, a few months before the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria, the recently re-elected French President François Mitterrand met at the French Embassy in Sofia with a group of Bulgarian intellectuals from dissident circles ,..

18.01.24 08:10 |

El Instituto Francés celebra el 35 aniversario del desayuno con Mitterrand

El 19 de enero de 1989 , pocos meses antes de la caída del régimen comunista en Bulgaria, el recién reelegido presidente francés François Mitterrand se reunió en la Embajada de Francia en Sofía con un grupo de intelectuales búlgaros de los círculos..

18.01.24 07:00 |