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The UN refugee agency reports more than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea this year, with 80 per cent of this record number landing on small, […]
migrBulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on December 29 that police has detained a Macedonian national as he was driving a lorry with 119 migrants. The driver, who had a Bulgarian residence […]
As clocks ticked away the last hours of 2014, the news that the parliament in Athens was dissolved on the last day of the year to pave the way for […]
Media reports in Bulgaria claimed that at least five MPs were set to follow in the footsteps of former Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) leader Lyutfi Mestan and quit […]
Prosecutors in Belgium said Tuesday police arrested two people suspected of planning holiday terror attacks in Brussels. They said investigators found evidence of plans to hit key sites in the […]
Syriza seems to continue politically “flirting” with minor opposition party Enosi Kentroon (Union of Centrists), judging by the statements made by government ministers. In recent weeks, reports suggested that government […]
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party. The move comes as security forces continue a crackdown across the predominantly Kurdish southeast […]
More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by land and sea in 2015, in a crisis that challenged – and will continue to challenge – the very […]
Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry said on December 28 that it has completed the first stage of preparations to build the gas interconnector with Serbia, which it hopes to complete by the […]
It’s a multibillion-euro natural gas project, publicly backed by Russian president Vladimir Putin and Germany’s second-most powerful leader, deputy chancellor Sigmar Gabriel. Nord Stream-2 is a pipeline project involving Russian [&helli ...
