Alternatives & Analyses: NPP Belene – Mission Impossible 3
The Bulgarian Minister of Energy seems to have finally given up attempting to resurrect the Belene NPP. From the first
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Analyses & Alternatives
Alternatives & Analyses: The Corruption Triad Borisov – Dogan – Peevski, Russia’s energy projects in Bulgaria and the upcoming Navalny sanctions
The noose around Russia and Gazprom’s Nord and Turk Stream projects is tightening. In yesterday’s issue, Germany’s influential tabloid Bild
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Alternatives & Analyses: The net geopolitical value of the new gas find in the Black Sea
The largest offshore gas finding in the Black Sea in the Turkish EZ has stirred agitation and tempted President Erdogan
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Alternatives & Analyses: Bulgaria’s gas transit system operator BTG buys 20% stake in the Alexandroupolis LNG terminal project.
The transaction has been in the making for many years, as the project developers tried to attract a strategic investor
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Alternatives & Analyses: The new gas find in the Black sea – a game changer with immense geopolitical implications
There is need for discounting Erdogan’s story on Black sea gas discovery for its populist ‘premium.’ Politicians are entitled to
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Alternatives & Analyses: The EC and the German Chancellor ignore the protests in Bulgaria – a misplaced ‘solidarity’
Recent events in Belarus tend to overshadow more than 40-days of consecutive days of protest in Bulgaria – the poorest
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Alternatives & Analyses: Turk – Balkan – Borisov Stream – metamorphoses
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time,
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Alternatives & Analyses: The Bulgarian Turk Stream – 2 – PM Borisov’s geopolitical blunder
Recent March 2020 data on natural gas imports to Turkey from Gazprom revealed a drastic decline from the usual 1.4
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Alternatives & Analyses: Borissov leaks a story – the IGB will suffer in case of US sanctions against Turk Stream
“24 Hours” daily is Borissov’s media mountpiece. An article that has just appeared warns that the United States is shortly
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Alternatives & Analyses: A brief analysis of the project State Oil Company
The persisting failure of the Competition Protection Commission (CPC) to deal with price parallelism, where several large fuel retailers, without
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