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weekly Editorial, blogs, opinion from TSG team and readers, Bill Drysdale on ‘My Bulgaria’; Analysis – from team, VOA, NENN; full texts of significant statements, speeches and media statements by Government and non-government organisations.

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Business as usual: Croatia’s denial of Ustaša crimes

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Sven Milekić Croatia

On June 26, The Independent published an op-ed written by Professor Menachem Rosensaft, general counsel of the World Jewish Congress,

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Comment: Democratic Bulgaria’s Hristo Ivanov’s D-Day landing

July 8, 2020July 9, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It was a stunt, but it was a good one. Hristo Ivanov had a Bulgarian flag in his hand; he

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Covid-19: The case for more (and better) Europe

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer new coronavirus

Eighteen years ago, I wrote an editorial saying that there was a need for a coherent agreed European Union policy

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Comment: Empty beaches, full stadiums…fuller cemeteries?

July 7, 2020July 8, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer new coronavirus

Among the beneficiaries of state aid for small businesses in Bulgaria hit by the Covid-19 crisis were funeral parlours in

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July 4, 2020September 18, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

For The Sofia Globe, there was a life before Covid-19; now the daunting challenge is to ensure that there is

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Comment: Why airlines can’t return to normal

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Mark Thomas new coronavirus, tourism

As the general public leans towards the mentality that the world is now “almost” normal again, politicians and medical experts

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Could the optimism of Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister be infectious?

June 17, 2020June 19, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

“I would like to be positive despite the unusually difficult situation,” Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has told a news

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Tourism: Summer is here – but not as we may know it

June 1, 2020June 4, 2020 Mark Thomas tourism

The summer holiday for many people is a “rite” as opposed to being an option. There are times, of course,

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Comment: Which way will airfares head?

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 Mark Thomas new coronavirus, tourism

Whenever and if ever the world of travel restarts, things are most definitely not going to be as they were

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