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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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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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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It seems that the stiff upper lip of yore has recently been replaced by a trembling, somewhat flabby chin.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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A Turkish reshuffle spells trouble for Europe

May 11, 2016 Asli Aydintasbas of the ECFR Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s sudden departure from the corridors of power may not necessarily mark an end to the

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