Opinion: On the EU, the UK referendum, and reform – part I
It is likely that this year the UK will hold a referendum on its continuing membership of the EU. Part
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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.
Year in Review: Politics in Bulgaria in 2015
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
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
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
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
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
A year ago, nearly to the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin was announcing, during a visit to Ankara, that the
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Bulgaria: Politics and Protests in the 21st Century – the book
Bulgaria is heading into the remainder of the 21st century with a considerable list of things to do. The challenges
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Opinion: Looking away from the Greece-Macedonia border
Following the reprehensible terror attacks in Paris, politicians and the media have understandably concentrated on the security situation, the hunt
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