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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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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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Bulgaria: Politics and Protests in the 21st Century – the book

November 30, 2015May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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

November 24, 2015May 10, 2024 Bernd Riegert of Deutsche Welle Greece, Macedonia

Following the reprehensible terror attacks in Paris, politicians and the media have understandably concentrated on the security situation, the hunt

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Fatal fire response latest in long list of grievances against Romania’s Ponta

November 4, 2015May 10, 2024 Alex Bivol Romania

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned on November 4 following large protests against the authorities’ response in the aftermath of

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