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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Israeli diplomats step up calls to EU to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation

February 14, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Israel’s diplomats, including the ambassadors in Bulgaria, Romania and to the United Nations, have stepped up concerted calls to the

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

Findings on Bourgas Airport attack will have consequences in the EU, Bulgarian Foreign Minister says

February 10, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack, Nikolai Mladenov

In the coming weeks and months, what Bulgaria has discovered about the terrorist bombing at Bourgas Airport will not remain

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Bulgaria News 

St Valentine in play as Bulgarian Orthodox Church nears election of new Patriarch

February 10, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

One could be forgiven for mistaking a Bulgarian Orthodox Church metropolitan’s public attack on celebrating Saint Valentine’s Day for an

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Of Hezbollah and the road beyond Bourgas

February 8, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Two of the most important questions now, after Bulgaria said that the investigation into the terrorist bomb attack on Israeli

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Boiko Borissov and ‘Buddha’: Future and past tense

February 8, 2013February 8, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The drip-feed of new posts of documents purporting to prove that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov was some sort of

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Europe News Perspectives 

The shape of Serbia

February 8, 2013February 7, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Serbian prime minister Ivica Dačić and his current coalition government appear to have emerged largely secure, if a little rattled,

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Bulgaria News World 

Hezbollah website highlights Bulgarian socialists’ Stanishev’s dissent on blame for Bourgas terrorist attack

February 6, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack, Sergei Stanishev

The criticism levelled by opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev of the Bulgarian government’s statement that the investigation into

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Bulgaria News 

‘Agent Buddha’, calls for yet more referendums, and ribbon-cuttings – just another weekend in Bulgarian politics

February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

If Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s recent statement about “liking” July 5 as the date for the 2013 national parliamentary elections

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria responds to ‘flood of migration to UK’ hysteria

February 1, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian leaders have responded to the hysteria being whipped up in some British publications and by the UKIP about a

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