Patriotic Front’s price for participation in GERB coalition: freezing the price of electricity
Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front coalition is setting its price for participation in a GERB coalition government – freezing the price
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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.
Valedictory speech by outgoing European Commission President Barroso
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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