Analysis: Cold War reflexes return to Europe over Ukraine
The Cold War is back. Russia’s military seizure of Crimea and preparations for a possible annexation of the southern Ukrainian
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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.
With Russia, fight fire with fire
Vladimir Putin is right. The West has interfered massively in Ukraine. Let me explain. Last year, about 15 per cent
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Opinion: No way out of the Crimea crisis
It is rare that a government statement is anticipated with as much deep concern as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s address to parliament on
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Controversy over foreign minister’s visit to Ukraine highlights Bulgaria’s policy complexities
The visit to Ukraine by Kristian Vigenin, the former MEP who currently is Bulgaria’s foreign minister, was a bid to
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Opinion: EU, US must bring Putin to reason
How does one stop a head of state with autocratic tendencies, who brutally pursues his interests without regard to how
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Russia Watch: Russia’s occupation of Crimea – blueprint for Eastern Ukraine?
One week after the Sochi Winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin has won a gold in the Occupation Olympics. They are being
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Thin red line from the Comintern to PES
When Martin Schulz stands up in front of assorted delegates at the Party of European Socialists congress in Rome on
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The politics of power over Bulgaria’s parliament
The political arithmetic that could decide the future of Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly has been changed by the entry of
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Opinion: The EU must not give in to temptation
Nobody expected things to happen this fast – least of all the European Union. On Friday, the German, Polish and
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