Commentary: 4 factors that led to Turkey’s snap elections
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called snap elections at the request of his ultra-nationalist ally, the Nationalist Action Party
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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.
Bulgarian security council meeting agrees on ‘urgency’ of military modernisation (again)
Bulgaria’s Consultative Council on National Security met for more than four hours on April 19, ending with President Roumen Radev
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Opinion: Bulgaria’s extended winter tourism season
As the winter ski season nears its end and before we get to read the official statistics that show that
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Do the Western Balkans face a coming Russian storm?
“Serbia and the rest of the Balkans are a pawn in a great game of powers between Russia, the EU,
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ECFR: The discreet charm of hypocrisy: An EU-Turkey Power Audit
A policy brief by the European Council on Foreign Relations: Addressing a press conference in Paris in January 2018, Turkish
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Great, or not so great, expectations for EU – Turkey summit in Varna
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, who is to host the March 26 2018 meeting in Varna of leaders of Turkey
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Bulgaria rushes to ‘self-defence’: Ami, get your gun
One night in Plovdiv, recently, a doctor shot dead a thief. The facts of how that transpired are disputed. Perceptions,
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Playing Peevski in the middle: Borissov vs Radev
Bulgaria has been treated to the spectacle of a reverse custody battle, as the country’s Prime Minister and its President
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Lukov and his Legionnaires: The record speaks
The organisers of the 2018 Lukov March, at a news conference this week, denied that the general in whose honour
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