The Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA) is a non-profit non-governmental organization that unites academics and professionals in addressing European integration and co-operation. It undertakes research on theoretical and policy-oriented problems of EU development and reform, on its enlargement, and on relationships between EU integration and societal transformation in Europe and in Bulgaria. BECSA disseminates information and supports education, training and awareness-raising about political, economic, legal and other aspects of the EU, about European integration and co-operation. It targets both the wider public and specific academic, cultural, political or professional circles in Bulgaria.

BECSA research activities address European integration and multiple identities, the impact of EU instruments on civil society building in the country, the relevance of multi-level governance issues for the domestic political process, etc. These questions have been addressed the publication series entitled “We in the European debate” and in “Bulletin Evropa” a bi-monthly journal in Bulgarian by BECSA.

Contact Details

 Address:          

The Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA)

Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str., block 6, floor 6    

BG 1113 Sofia

BULGARIA

Tel.:                 

+ 359 2 716595                              

Fax.:              

+ 359 2 9793026   

E-mail:         

knikolov@becsa.org

Web-page:      

http://www.becsa.org/index_en.html

About Krassimir Nikolov

from The Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA)

Krassimir Nikolov, title,  is Secretary-General of the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association and a member of its’ Managing Board. Krassimir Nikolov is also Senior Expert at the Institute of European Studies and Information (IESI) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. Among the first Jean Monnet lecturers in Bulgaria, he has since 2000 been a lecturer at the training courses for civil servants from the European Commission (College of Europe, Bruges). His research interests lie in the fields of political integration in the EU, relations of the EU with the countries from Central and Eastern Europe and with EFTA, the political and institutional architecture of a united Europe, etc.

Krassimir Nikolov has contributed to the EU debate through “Bulletin Evropa”, the series We in the European Debate and the on-line journal “Challenge Europe” http://www.theepc.be/challenge/. Most recently, he has co-authored books on institutional reforms and political leadership in the EU.