The Balkan Blog: Will Britons ever be slaves?
When Britain first, at Heaven’s command Arose from out the azure main; This was the charter of the land, And
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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.
The Balkan Blog: No man is an island
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the
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Opinion: Erdogan, Putin and the touchy Turkish Stream
The revival of the Turkish Stream pipeline project is expected to be the concrete outcome of the meeting between Russian
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Twenty years on, Michael Kapoustin and Life Choice
“Letters to My Son” is an autobiographical account of Michael Kapoustin’s life in Bulgaria. In it, he describes his time
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Europe seen from the outside – the British view
A political counter-revolution against the European Union is underway. Brexit is likely to be seen in hindsight as just the
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The unspeakable in pursuit of the unelectable?
Carefully mincing up Oscar Wilde’s reference to the British landed gentry with the tragicomic hero from from Victor Hugo’s tale
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Greece: More a way of life
I live in Greece, because it is easy. Having spent the best part of 20 years living in Bulgaria, and
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A view of potential benefits to Brexit
There are four ‘free movements’ (also called freedoms) that are intrinsic and indivisible with regard to the EU. These are
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his coat of many colours
At present, it is hard to think of the Turkish President in glowing terms, mainly because his power stems from
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