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Month: December 2015

Bulgaria 

Business sentiment in Bulgaria slides slightly in December 2015

December 30, 2015December 30, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

A monthly poll of the business climate in Bulgaria saw a slight decrease, by 0.7 percentage points, in December 2015

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Europe 

Migration crisis: Seaborne arrivals in Europe top one million

December 30, 2015January 29, 2016 Lisa Schlein of VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Syrian refugees

The UN refugee agency reports more than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea this year, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria detains Macedonian national on charges of trafficking of migrants

December 29, 2015December 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

migrBulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on December 29 that police has detained a Macedonian national as he was driving a lorry

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Perspectives 

Year in Review: The EU and Greece

December 29, 2015January 5, 2016 Alex Bivol Greece

As clocks ticked away the last hours of 2014, the news that the parliament in Athens was dissolved on the

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Bulgaria 

At least five MPs set to leave Bulgaria’s MRF parliamentary group – reports

December 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Media reports in Bulgaria claimed that at least five MPs were set to follow in the footsteps of former Movement

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Europe 

Belgium arrests 2 suspected of New Year’s terror plot

December 29, 2015 VOANews

Prosecutors in Belgium said Tuesday police arrested two people suspected of planning holiday terror attacks in Brussels. They said investigators

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Europe 

Syriza ‘flirting’ with centrist party ahead of crucial votes in parliament

December 29, 2015December 29, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Syriza seems to continue politically “flirting” with minor opposition party Enosi Kentroon (Union of Centrists), judging by the statements made

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World 

As crackdown continues, Turkey investigates Kurdish party leader

December 29, 2015December 29, 2015 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party. The move comes as

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Perspectives 

Year in Review: Europe’s migrant crisis and Bulgaria

December 28, 2015January 4, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Greece, Rossen Plevneliev, Syrian refugees, Turkey

More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by land and sea in 2015, in a crisis that

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