Tag: #Bulgaria
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Michelin snubs Sofia’s restaurant scene
Sofia has not made the cut for the Michelin Guide after this year’s inspection, though how final that verdict is depends on who you ask. The Michelin Guide itself started as a marketing gimmick. French tire makers André and Édouard Michelin launched it in 1900, handing it out free to the roughly 3,000 motorists in…
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The two chairs
Rumen Radev is trying to sit on two chairs at once, and so far he’s managed to annoy the people holding both of them. In Paris, Radev declined Macron’s invitation to the Coalition of the Willing and declared Bulgaria doesn’t belong in a format that keeps arming Ukraine. A day later his foreign minister backed…
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GERB wants a national ID app to “protect” your kids
Opposition party GERB has proposed banning social media for anyone under 16, with a mandatory “digital wallet” app to verify every user’s age before they can even sign up. Miss the age cut and your account gets shut down, VPN or not. MP Kostadin Angelov is calling it protection from a “digital addiction.” Starting with…
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Bulgaria’s summer ritual: We kill each other on the roads, then we forget
In the span of about three weeks this month, the news here has read like a casualty list. Four people dead on Chelopeshko Shose after two men raced each other into a city bus at around 150 km/h. Two teenagers killed near Mezdra by a kid with five months of driving experience. Two nine-year-old boys…
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Was I wrong about Radev?
Two months ago, I wrote that the lazy Western take on Rumen Radev, “the next Orban,” missed the point. Bulgaria already has its Orban, and his name is Boyko Borissov. The better question, I argued, was whether Radev could be our Péter Magyar: the popular outsider who finally breaks the corrupt system from the position…