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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.

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British Bulgarian Business Association response to Theresa May’s Brexit speech

February 8, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit

The British Bulgarian Business Association (BBBA) chairman has been approached by H.E. Emma Hopkins OBE, British ambassador to Bulgaria, with

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Conduct unbecoming? Bulgarian president-elect Radev takes flak in National Assembly

January 19, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

Roumen Radev has set something of a record for Bulgarian heads of state by being the subject of a call

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Zlatka’s story of early teen motherhood again raises issues of Roma in Bulgaria

January 5, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It is a dreary ritual for reporters with the coming of a New Year, churning out the routine stories that

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An envoy, an assassin and a mystery in the heart of Ankara

December 23, 2016March 9, 2017 Asli Aydintasbas of the ECFR Russia, Turkey

Coming at the tail end of an annus horriblis in global affairs, the assassination of the Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov

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Greece left alone in the refugee crisis

December 9, 2016March 9, 2017 Bernd Riegert of Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Greece

EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos is “not the happiest person on earth,” he said in Brussels as he presented the

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The Populist-Putin-Trump insurgency against liberal Europe

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 Fredrik Wesslau of the European Council on Foreign Relations

Europe’s liberal order could come crashing down next year. Squeezed from all directions, it may not be able to withstand

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Can governance Trump guns? European security after the US elections

November 23, 2016 Mark Galeotti of the European Council on Foreign Relations Nato, Russia

European security co-operation has never really been off the EU’s agenda, but controversy, political divisions and expense have for many

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Bulgaria elections 2017: Borissov is vulnerable over political decisions, less so the economy

November 22, 2016November 23, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev

If ever there was a good time to predict the outcome of the parliamentary elections that Bulgaria is set to

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Patrick Brigham: Greece on the internet

November 19, 2016 The Balkan News Magazine Greece

It is not a language difficulty nor is it an inability for me to comfortably use the internet – after

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