Bill Shankly has famously said that "Football is not just a matter of life and death: it's much more important than that". Now, few supporters take it to those extremes, but it's a good example of what a massive source of pride, both at club and national
"You won't get me this time," said Boyko Borissov a week before the local vote when asked about plans to run for the prime minister's office. In two years, that is.
Across Europe, the phrase is associated with Turkey's prospects for EU membership, making many, even though mostly secular, Europeans queasy. In Bulgaria, the phrase was whispered with an even more ominous ring to it during the recent local elections, ref
Last winter, scores of flights have been cancelled at the Sofia airport over several months because of the fog. And that's even with the upgraded landing strip, which cost tens of millions of euro and was years late.
Yet another Bulgarian star has recently proved the statement that there is no such thing like bad publicity. And the more provocative it is, the brighter the star shines.
Petar Dimitrov, the Bulgarian economy minister, has provided a wonderful sound bite on Tuesday, when he called for a new stage of reforms, one that would usher in a new era of prosperity for Bulgaria. Sound familiar?
Floods of Biblical proportions are making headlines in Bulgaria again. A sad comment on a country where mayors are all into shoring up partisan support, instead of river banks, and cleaning up their image, instead of the sewage system.
It seems Bulgarians are used to live surrounded by piles of garbage as significant parts of our home cities and towns are buried under tons of waste. Those in power however have recently tried to persuade the citizens of one district they could even enjoy
Here is an oddity. The most important party for Bulgaria in the next few years is not even in parliament.
Bulgarian politicians have always been arrogant - it's almost as if the quality is part of the job description.
The phenomenon that marred the recent local elections in Bulgaria was undoubtedly the extremely intense and thrilling process of vote-buying. It became a subject of extensive discussions and a grand scandal, which split up the parliament.
The dust raised by Bulgaria's local elections is still settling down, with some municipal councils still to be sworn in (Sofia will do so next week) and it is too early to judge their outcome. Arguably, the most important issue - the flaws in the elector
One Bulgarian think tank had the most audacious proposal to make on Sunday - cut the money spent on public administration and spend them on pensions and giving the rest of the civil servants a good incentive to perform better. A revolutionary idea for Bu
It's quite interesting to observe people's devotion to royal families. They live with their kings and queens.
Happily, democracy still has the power to surprise. Unhappily, the democratic local elections in Bulgaria were padded out with bank notes.
Defence companies welcomed NATO's eastward expansion over the past decade, seeing an opportunity for brisk business with the former communist states, who now had to upgrade their militaries to the organisation's standards, and who better to provide them w
Just about every single party claimed at least some sort of victory at the, already blessedly concluded, local polls in Bulgaria. The Socialists claimed it because they had the biggest number of mayors and municipal councillors, equating the mayoral seat
Once upon a time there was a king, whose diplomacy, albeit often inarticulate, could placate the prickliest of voters. He swept 2001 elections in a republic to become the first ever king-turned-prime minister.
Ever since he shot into the media limelight, Boyko Borissov has worked tirelessly to present the same image - the hardman who gets the job done once he takes it up in earnest and never stops before he gets what he wants. Full of bluster and swagger, he r
In sport a knockout is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and so on.
Eli Egosi is Chief Executive Officer of Bulgaria Mall (investors: Salamanca Capital and LS Property) and Advisor to the CEO for Grand Mall Varna (investor: Orchid Developments Group).
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