Protests 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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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: 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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Opinion: Skopje violence the result of planned destabilization
The outbreak of violence in Skopje is hardly surprising. The attack on the Macedonian parliament is the result of a
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Mogherini goes to Moscow but is missing in action in Ukraine
Midway into her term, Federica Mogherini found herself in Moscow. The high representative had wanted to go to Moscow for
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Bulgarian President Radev special address: what he said and what he did not
Having found himself at the centre of the controversy after the publication, last week, of proposed amendments on curtailing the
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Bulgaria’s red baron, President Radev, flies into turbulence over law changes
Bulgaria’s President Roumen Radev has been in office as head of state since January 22. Of the 74 days since
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Of Bulgaria, and ‘conversations not negotiations’ on the forming of a new government
Four days after Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, Tomislav Donchev, a senior member of Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, said that there were
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EU ambassadors joint statement on Bulgaria and CVM
The ambassadors to Bulgaria of 12 EU member states released a joint statement on March 28, in response to a
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