
Martin Dimitrov
Journalist, Bulgaria
Diana Topcic-Rosenberg tells her story of adapting to the political and social realities of her home country after a 20-year career abroad
Marijana Puljak, an IT engineer, entered politics in order to establish a school in her neighbourhood and now vows to create a liberal alternative in her country.
Romanian MEP Ramona Strugariu on taking the rule of law agenda of a protest movement to the EU level. Strugariu, who is currently a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Renew Europe Group, is a law graduate with more than a decade of experience in the NGO sector.
When IT engineer Marijana Puljak took her first steps into civic activism more than a decade ago, she merely wanted to see that her neighbourhood in the city of Split, Croatia got a primary school for her children and those of her neighbours. Twelve years down the road, she is a full-time politician and has the ambition to establish a new liberal alternative to the status-quo parties that, instead of forever digging into the past, seeks workable solutions for the co