Current affairs: Bulgaria and the politics of electricity
Bulgaria’s centre-right government, facing national parliamentary elections at the beginning of July 2013, has little time at its disposal to
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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.
North Korean nuclear test turns spotlight on Iran
North Korea’s nuclear test this week is also putting the spotlight on Iran, which has been moving forward on its
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Travel: Fair or not?
If your train from Sofia to Stara Zagora or your bus from Rousse to Varna is cancelled due to snow
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Of Hezbollah and the road beyond Bourgas
Two of the most important questions now, after Bulgaria said that the investigation into the terrorist bomb attack on Israeli
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Boiko Borissov and ‘Buddha’: Future and past tense
The drip-feed of new posts of documents purporting to prove that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov was some sort of
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The shape of Serbia
Serbian prime minister Ivica Dačić and his current coalition government appear to have emerged largely secure, if a little rattled,
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M&A corner: VIX, the ‘fear index’
If there is one graph that one might look at that would best summarise perceptions of risk associated with the
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Opinion: Britain was GREAT: Paradise Lost
For some years now, I have been one of the most prominent flag carriers for Britain in Bulgaria. As Chairman
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Storming the castle: Miloš Zeman’s victory exacerbates Czech Republic’s political flux
With cries of “Long live Zeman” ringing out around a packed conference room at the Top Hotel Praha Jan. 26,
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