Partners for Life: Europe’s unanswered ‘Eastern Question’
Next month the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit convenes for the fifth time. This could be a crucial moment for 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.
Podcast: Bulgaria’s Martin Kuvandzhiev, Bitcoin Gold developer
Bitcoin recently peaked at a market capitalisation of $100 billion due, in part, to crypto enthusiasts selling alt coins and
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Bulgarian EU Presidency: Pointless to pursue portrayal of a Potemkin village
As many – including Bulgarians – who grew up in the communist bloc would remember, there was a Soviet animated
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What to do about Turkey?
Turkey will be on the menu as European leaders meet for dinner in Brussels on October 19, but it won’t
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What Europe can do for the Western Balkans
The Balkans are not as exciting as they once were. The large-scale violence that made the region a central concern
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Fellow travellers: Russia, anti-Westernism, and Europe’s political parties
There is a large amount of ideological overlap between some European political parties and the Russian government. Significantly, these include
Read moreProtests in Bulgaria: From Assenovgrad to the ‘1300 years’ monument
These sweltering days of July, hardly a headline in the Bulgarian media goes by without having the word “protest” somewhere
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Opinion: Modern-day slaves?
Britain is my native country. I was born and bred here, but I was living and working for some years
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Greece – Bulgaria following in the footsteps of the French – German axis
Greece and Bulgaria have a long history of proximity coupled with tensions, differences, but also a common historical course during
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