EU offers Eastern Partnership members money, motivation
The EU has invited representatives from six post-Soviet states to take part in its fifth annual Eastern Partnership summit. On
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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.
Political repercussions as GERB’s Glavchev resigns as Bulgarian National Assembly Speaker
Bulgarian Prime Minister and centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov might have expected a hat-trick – approval of his government’s
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Bulgaria’s 2018 EU Presidency: Bedtime stories
The acceleration of the date when Bulgaria will take over the seat of the EU Presidency from the first half
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Opinion: A small step toward a European army
An historic breakthrough or just another attempt doomed to peter out? The EU plans to coordinate EU members’ military capacities
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Tensions between Bulgaria’s President and governing majority not dissipating
The difficult relationship between Bulgaria’s President Roumen Radev and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s governing majority shows no sign of dissipating,
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Why the Bulgarian Government could be bolder
Bulgaria is doing well economically: GDP is growing by over three per cent annually, state debt is below 30 per
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Russian embassy in Sofia attempts new spin in row on claims Soviets rescued Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust
Amid the row over Moscow’s claim that it was the Red Army that rescued the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust,
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Bitcoin hits all time high of $7000: More euphoria to come
Bitcoin price reached $7400 yesterday (predicted here) and it’s $7200 and climbing as I write. The reason for the latest
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Halloween high: Bitcoin hits $6300 all time record – and the top 8 mistakes Bitcoin newbies will make
Back in July 2016, when the Bitcoin price was $642, I said in an article in The Sofia Globe that
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