M&A corner: Cutting costs – cut fat, not muscle
I have seen several situations where management was of the view that costs could not be cut without considerably affecting
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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.
Bulgaria’s media movements and muddles
A great game is being played out in Bulgaria’s media market that can be as baffling as trying to think
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Travel: Getting the job done
In Europe, the power of democracy is such that whenever there is a good idea, the lunatic fringe which regardless
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Few heroes in Central Europe’s post-war chaos
Review: Orderly and Humane. The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War Some 65 years ago on the outskirts
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Opinion: Ukraine – incompetence reigns supreme
Inevitably after a major election and government reshuffle, Ukraine’s counterparts once again start asking themselves, which way Ukraine is going
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Russia Watch: Russia’s winter transport: From the troika to rubber tyres
It snowed in Russia last week. (Yawn. What else is new?) But Russia no longer is Dr. Zhivago country, a
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Putin’s Turkey visit could smooth Syria relations
Russian President Vladmir Putin is scheduled to visit Turkey on December 3. The visit comes as the two countries remain
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Back to black: Hague ruling on atrocities upsets Serbia’s fragile reconciliation process
Controversial human rights movement Women in Black travelled from Belgrade to Vukovar, Croatia, Nov. 19 to commemorate the 264 victims
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Plain packaging and its unintended consequences
Plain packaging means removing all distinctive elements (logo, colours, lettering) associated with a product and replacing them with a generic
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