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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.

Europe Perspectives 

Brits abroad: How Brexit could hurt expats

June 21, 2016June 27, 2016 Susi Dennison and Dina Pardijs Brexit

A British exit from the EU could jeopardise the jobs, homes, and healthcare of the 1.2 million Brits living in

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Last Brexit to nowhere

June 18, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

This is my last and final rant about the Brexit – stay or remain – until the final vote is

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Boris and The Goldfish Bowl

June 14, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

If the World was just a goldfish bowl, Am I looking out or looking in? Are the things I see,

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Death in the afternoon

June 1, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

The mindless piffle which is being peddled by Brexit campaigners in order to influence voters in the forthcoming EU referendum,

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Bulgaria Perspectives Videos 

Podcast: Timely release wagons; and Bulgarians and businesses, and other stories

May 27, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

If Bulgaria does not already baffle you, prepare to be bamboozled by the buffoons responsible for what they imagine passes

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Billy Bunter and the Brexit

May 23, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

Watching the Brexit circus from a safe distance in Greece, I can’t help feeling that I have seen it all

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US ambassador: ‘Promoting economic growth is one of my top priorities’

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

United States ambassador to Bulgaria Eric Rubin, who presented his credentials to President Plevneliev earlier this year, addressed an American

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Tato – The man and the myth

May 20, 2016 Patrick Brigham

In September 1997, I concluded an interview with the last surviving East European communist dictator, ex – President Todor Zhivkov

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Patrick Brigham: Stop apologising

May 13, 2016May 13, 2016 Patrick Brigham

It seems that the stiff upper lip of yore has recently been replaced by a trembling, somewhat flabby chin. All

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