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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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Patriotic Front’s price for participation in GERB coalition: freezing the price of electricity

October 23, 2014October 25, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014, energy

Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front coalition is setting its price for participation in a GERB coalition government – freezing the price

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Valedictory speech by outgoing European Commission President Barroso

October 21, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

On October 21, European Commission President Jose Barroso, holder of that office for two terms, made his valedictory speech to

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Experts divided over whether sanctions against Russia are working

October 15, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

After several rounds of international sanctions against Russia for its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March and support of

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UK ambassador to Bulgaria on foreign policy in a less stable neighbourhood

October 9, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

British ambassador in Sofia Jonathan Allen delivered a speech at the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria in Varna about the British

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Bulgarian elections 2014: Setting the scene

October 3, 2014October 5, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

As Bulgarians, or at least a percentage of them, prepare to head for the ballot booths on October 5, the

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Ahead of elections, Bulgarian politicians make power play over electricity price increase

September 29, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014, energy

It is high time for an end to using energy issues for political purposes, the head of Bulgaria’s energy regulator

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Bulgarian elections 2014: Of campaign ads and catatonia

September 26, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian elections 2014

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC), having banned two campaign videos, said on September 26 that it was to consider banning

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Bulgaria’s CCB saga and the central bank’s crisis of legitimacy

September 24, 2014May 10, 2024 Alex Bivol CCB affair

Amid the continued uncertainty surrounding the fate of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), Bulgaria’s fourth-largest lender before it was put under

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Bulgarian elections 2014: Politicians bank on Corpbank controversy

September 21, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2014, CCB affair, Peevski protests

The question of the future of troubled Corporate Commercial Bank is defining debate ahead of Bulgaria’s October 5 early parliamentary

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