Comment: Democratic Bulgaria’s Hristo Ivanov’s D-Day landing
It was a stunt, but it was a good one. Hristo Ivanov had a Bulgarian flag in his hand; he
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Perspectives
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.
Covid-19: The case for more (and better) Europe
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?
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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The Sofia Globe and Patreon
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
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?
“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
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?
Whenever and if ever the world of travel restarts, things are most definitely not going to be as they were
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Bouncing back again: How past crises can help Eastern Europe fight Covid-19
“Do you know what ‘covid’ means in Bulgarian?”, a friend asked me recently. “It is a combination of Kostov and
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