Greek police arrest Golden Dawn party leader, MPs
Greek police have arrested Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the far-right Golden Dawn Party, on charges of forming a criminal
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Year: 2013
Turkey frustrated over stalled EU membership bid
The Turkish government is voicing increasing frustration over its stalled bid to join the European Union. Ankara is now warning
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Activists protest against Serbia’s ban of Belgrade Pride 2013
A group of hundreds of protesters held a rapidly-organised demonstration against the ban by the Serbian government of the Belgrade
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Strike three on day three of Bulgaria’s parliamentary ‘no confidence’ drama
Three successive attempts failed to achieve a quorum for the September 27 sitting of Bulgaria’s Parliament, which was scheduled to
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‘Great possibility’ that Bulgaria will get EC funding to assist in refugee crisis
There is a great possibility that Bulgaria will get funding from the European Commission to assist the country in dealing
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Will Boiko’s boycott tactics spoil his own future?
ince the Bulgarian Socialist Party government came to power in May 2013, opposition leader and former prime minister Boiko Borissov
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Russia orders two-month detention of Greenpeace activists
A Russian court has ruled that most of the 30 people arrested on a Greenpeace ship during a protest in
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Is Turkey turning away from the West?
A top adviser to Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan argued publicly that Turkey should stop aspiring to join the
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Russia Watch: Russia’s Potemkin Arctic Conference?
There were two hours to go Wednesday afternoon at the international conference “The Arctic – Territory of Dialogue” when the
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