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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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Where is Poland headed?

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Poland

Does Polish national-conservative leader Jarosław Kaczyński have a plan? Or are his policy decisions (which are often rushed through literally

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Opinion: On the EU, the UK referendum, and reform – part II

January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 Jonathan Mills

It is likely that this year the UK will hold a referendum on its continuing membership of the EU. Part

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Opinion: On the EU, the UK referendum, and reform – part I

January 8, 2016January 12, 2016 Jonathan Mills

It is likely that this year the UK will hold a referendum on its continuing membership of the EU. Part

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Year in Review: Politics in Bulgaria in 2015

December 31, 2015January 7, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, energy, judiciary, Rossen Plevneliev, Russia

Politically, the year 2015 was in the main a good one for Bulgarian Prime Minister and GERB party leader Boiko

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Year in Review: Eastern Europe showing signs of escaping Russia’s energy clutches

December 30, 2015January 6, 2016 Alex Bivol energy

One of the defining trends in the global economy in 2015 was the persistently low prices of oil, which sank

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Year in Review: The EU and Greece

December 29, 2015January 5, 2016 Alex Bivol Greece

As clocks ticked away the last hours of 2014, the news that the parliament in Athens was dissolved on the

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Year in Review: Europe’s migrant crisis and Bulgaria

December 28, 2015January 4, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Greece, Rossen Plevneliev, Syrian refugees, Turkey

More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by land and sea in 2015, in a crisis that

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Opinion: Old and new crises in the EU

December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 Barbara Wesel of Deutsche Welle

No progress was made at the last EU summit of the year. The British prime minister added to the discord

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Turkish Stream evaporates into the ether – more economics than estrangement

December 3, 2015April 1, 2016 Alex Bivol energy, Russia, South Stream, Turkey

A year ago, nearly to the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin was announcing, during a visit to Ankara, that the

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