Schengen must survive, Slovak politicians say
Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico and his government continue to voice their opposition to EU-wide quotas on accepting refugees after Hungary
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Month: September 2015
Croatia admits more than 5000 migrants
The European Parliament has backed a plan to distribute some 120,000 refugees among European Union member countries in an effort
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CPJ, OSCE blast Ukraine on foreign journalist entry ban
Two international rights organizations have criticized Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for signing a decree that banned 41 foreign journalists and
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Ukraine’s ban of foreign journalists ignites international ire
Prominent foreign journalists briefly found themselves in the company of Kremlin cheerleader and Chechen strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov in Ukraine’s
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Film review: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
For a film subtitled The Scorch Trials and mostly set in a post-apocalyptic desert in a not-too-distant future here on
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Film review: Love
An ode to genitalia, vigorous rutting and the release of bodily fluids, Gaspar Noé’s Love is the polar opposite of
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What’s On: Major exhibition of a pioneer in printmaking in Bulgaria, at the National Gallery in Sofia
An exhibition of the work of one of the pioneers in printmaking in Bulgaria, Josef Pitter, opens at the National Gallery
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Bulgaria sharply increases penalties for people-traffickers
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on September 17 to sharply increase the penalties for people-traffickers, in a step taken against the background
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Migrant crisis: Bulgaria issues travel warning to motorists about Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary
Against the background of the continuing migrant crisis in Europe, Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued its latest travel warning,
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