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Day: December 16, 2015

Europe 

Serbia ready to accept 6000 refugees during the winter

December 16, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Serbia’s role in coping with the refugees crisis has been praised by the European Union and we will continue in

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Europe 

Ukraine to suspend trade with Crimea

December 16, 2015 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine says it will suspend trade with Russian-occupied Crimea by mid-January. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in televised comments Wednesday

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs pass constitutional amendments on judicial reforms at third reading

December 16, 2015December 18, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at third and final reading on December 16 constitutional amendments on judicial reforms with 189 votes, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM names President’s chief of staff Zaharieva as new Justice Minister

December 16, 2015December 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, judiciary

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov on December 16 nominated President Rossen Plevneliev’s chief of staff and twice-former caretaker cabinet minister

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian bill envisions graphic warnings on tobacco packaging starting 2017

December 16, 2015December 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff smoking

Bulgaria’s Cabinet said on December 16 that it has finalised a bill of amendments to the country’s tobacco legislation, which

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Bulgaria 

Pavlopoulos to Plevneliev: Greece will support Bulgaria’s joining euro

December 16, 2015December 17, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Rossen Plevneliev

Greek president Prokopis Pavlopoulos has reiterated Greece’s firm support for Bulgaria’s membership of the Schengen area and also issued an

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Europe 

Greece bailout reforms advance in parliament

December 16, 2015 VOANews euro zone, Greece

Lawmakers in Greece have approved new legislation on banking and utility reforms demanded by European lenders in exchange for another

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Europe 

Ukraine may buy some 8 bcm of natural gas p.a. from Poland

December 16, 2015 The Warsaw Voice energy, Poland, Ukraine

Ukraine could be buying some 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas per annum from Poland once a natural gas

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Europe 

Video of lawmaker manhandling Yatsenyuk more popular than Ukraine’s slick tourism promotion

December 16, 2015 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Ukraine’s Economy Ministry recently unveiled a stylish new video to promote Ukraine as a tourism destination. They were happy that

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