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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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Opinion: Apple, taxes, and just punishment

August 31, 2016 Bernd Riegert of Deutsche Welle

Margrethe Vestager reminds us of the purpose of the European Union. Only she – as European Commissioner for Competition –

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The Balkan Blog: Be an Ambler Gambler

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 Patrick Brigham

In my last three murder mystery novels, certain critics have noted a similarity between my writing style and that of

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The Balkan Blog: Will Britons ever be slaves?

August 26, 2016August 26, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

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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The Balkan Blog: No man is an island

August 22, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

“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

August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 Deutsche Welle energy, Russia, South Stream, Turkey

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

August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 Patrick Brigham

“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

August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 Mark Leonard of the ECFR Brexit

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?

July 28, 2016July 28, 2016 Patrick Brigham

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

July 25, 2016 Patrick Brigham Greece

I live in Greece, because it is easy. Having spent the best part of 20 years living in Bulgaria, and

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