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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.

Business Perspectives 

M&A corner: Cutting costs – cut fat, not muscle

December 10, 2012 Les Nemethy

I have seen several situations where management was of the view that costs could not be cut without considerably affecting

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s media movements and muddles

December 7, 2012December 7, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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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Leisure Perspectives 

Travel: Getting the job done

December 7, 2012December 6, 2012 Mark Thomas

In Europe, the power of democracy is such that whenever there is a good idea, the lunatic fringe which regardless

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Europe News Perspectives 

Few heroes in Central Europe’s post-war chaos

December 4, 2012December 4, 2012 Benedicte Williams of The Budapest Times

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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Europe News Perspectives 

Opinion: Ukraine – incompetence reigns supreme

December 4, 2012 Katya Gorchinskaya of The Kyiv Post

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

December 4, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

It snowed in Russia last week. (Yawn. What else is new?) But Russia no longer is Dr. Zhivago country, a

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Europe News Perspectives 

Putin’s Turkey visit could smooth Syria relations

December 3, 2012June 2, 2013 Dorian Jones of VOANews Russia, Syria, Turkey

Russian President Vladmir Putin is scheduled to visit Turkey on December 3.  The visit comes as the two countries remain

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Europe News Perspectives 

Back to black: Hague ruling on atrocities upsets Serbia’s fragile reconciliation process

November 29, 2012 Harriet Salem for The Prague Post

Controversial human rights movement Women in Black travelled from Belgrade to Vukovar, Croatia, Nov. 19 to commemorate the 264 victims

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Business Europe News Perspectives 

Plain packaging and its unintended consequences

November 28, 2012May 22, 2013 Petar Ganev, IME

Plain packaging means removing all distinctive elements (logo, colours, lettering) associated with a product and replacing them with a generic

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