From myth to reality: How to understand Turkey’s role in the Western Balkans
In October 2017, the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, made an official visit to Serbia. It was not the
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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.
Opinion: EU immigration policy is grist to the far-right mill
A final attempt by EU interior ministers to find agreement on a common immigration policy ahead of European parliamentary elections
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Negative energy: Berlin’s Trumpian turn on Nord Stream 2
Berlin has handled the dispute over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with unilateralism and clumsiness worthy of US President
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A February night in Bulgaria: Of tolerance, and a torchlight march
It was the contrast of light and dark, this February night in Sofia. In one part of the Bulgarian capital
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Opinion: EU online copyright reform won’t break the internet
For two years, lobbyists, internet stakeholders, publishers, media professionals and online activists have been hard at work influencing the institutions
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Israeli ambassador to Bulgaria on Holocaust remembrance: ‘Just another milestone in the long journey’
This is the message from the State of Israel’s ambassador to Bulgaria, Irit Lilian, in relation to International Holocaust Remembrance
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Bulgaria’s Voyvodinovo saga: Karakachanov, ‘impudent gypsies’ and the voices of concern
It began on January 6 with the assault of Bulgarian paratrooper Corporal Valentin Dimov. It has grown, as with such
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Events in Bulgaria in 2019: The Big Questions
A number of events are scheduled for Bulgaria in 2019; well, some are scheduled, others are – to riff on
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Opinion: The hideous face of communism is alive and well in Romania
There is an old line that comes from the days of Romania’s “Socialist realism” style of literary-ideological manipulation: “The party
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