Commentary: Europe’s new agenda in the Western Balkans
A quiet but fundamental shift is under way in the European Union’s policy on the Western Balkans. With the term
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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.
Prominent Europeans call for change in approach to EU foreign policy
This is the text of an open letter signed by more than 60 prominent Europeans, all Council Members of the European Council
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Bulgaria and the Holocaust: The struggle for truth
It is a battle for historical truth, a battle against fake news, a battle against Holocaust distortion, and it is
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Israeli ambassador Lilian: ‘Ending Iran’s nuclear military programme and its belligerent behaviour’
By Irit Lilian, Ambassador of the State of Israel to Bulgaria Later this month, we will commemorate the victims of
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Opinion: In the end, it was a backroom deal
It was an unexpected victory for Angela Merkel. It has been 50 years since we last had a German leading
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Opinion: Moldovan crisis a test case for Russia-US cooperation
Russia is back in big political business. For the first time since the annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the
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Looking on Bulgaria: The D-Day landings anniversary, and ‘desant’
It had been a matter of curiousity for me for years, the reason why – in film subtitles and texts
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A Balkan tragedy: Of the Bulgarian village of Bolyarino, and life, and death
Somewhere in all the bald statements of the Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office and in the reporting by local media, there
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The strange influence of the Macedonian model
The presidential elections in North Macedonia last Sunday produced both a winner – pro-EU and pro-Nato candidate Stevo Pendarovski, a
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