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Promises and problems on the path to Kosovo’s June 8 elections

May 29, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kosovo, Serbia

Campaigning is underway in Kosovo ahead of its snap June 8 parliamentary elections, with all the predictable complexities that means.

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Perspectives 

Beyond May 25: The meaning of Bulgaria’s European Parliament election

May 22, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer European elections 2014

Expect, on the night of May 25 as Bulgaria’s political parties hold their ritual post-results news conferences, to hear from

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Bulgaria 

In a blur in HD: Bulgaria’s European Parliament election campaign videos

May 19, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer European elections 2014

There was the sight of Kalfin in a kayak, of Viktor Papazov tending to his beekeeping and, of course, the

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Europe 

European Parliament 2014 elections: TV debate gallops from bad bankers to Ukraine to headscarves

May 16, 2014May 19, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer European elections 2014

Well, we know that the candidates to be the next European Commission President are, at least, united on #BringBackOurGirls. That

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Bulgaria 

ADL survey of anti-Semitism: Bulgaria worse than Eastern Europe average

May 14, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Eastern Europe ranks second among the world’s regions in anti-Semitic attitudes, and Bulgaria is worse than the average, scoring 44

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Leisure 

Austria wins Eurovision 2014 – and Russia most definitely does not

May 11, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Austria’s Conchita Wurst was voted the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen on May 10 – on

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Europe 

European elections 2014: Greece – dawn or dusk?

May 8, 2014May 11, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer European elections 2014, Greece

On May 25, Greece’s voters will cast their ballots not only in the European Parliament elections but also in the

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Bulgaria 

European elections 2014: Bulgaria – any change?

May 8, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer European elections 2014

When Bulgaria last held European Parliament elections in 2009, they were followed a few weeks later by scheduled elections for

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Perspectives 

European elections 2014: Bulgaria’s media sideshows

May 1, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer European elections 2014, Media

First, there is the number game, as always – the percentages in opinion polls, the counts of participants at election

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