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Day: January 19, 2016

Europe 

Doctors Without Borders blasts EU migration policies

January 19, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

Humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has denounced Europe’s migration policy of deterrence in 2015 as a “catastrophic

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Perspectives 

Where is Poland headed?

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Poland

Does Polish national-conservative leader Jarosław Kaczyński have a plan? Or are his policy decisions (which are often rushed through literally

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Bulgaria 

Nuland discusses energy diversification, security, rule of law with Bulgarian leaders

January 19, 2016January 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, energy, Rossen Plevneliev

US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland held talks in Sofia on January 20 2016

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria gets gas grid study funding in latest EU energy infrastructure package

January 19, 2016January 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s state-owned gas grid operator Bulgartransgaz will receive 850 000 euro for a feasibility study as part of the latest

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Bulgaria 

President Plevneliev: Bulgaria is stable amid numerous crises surrounding it

January 19, 2016January 21, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

A record number of crises and the interaction between them are making the world unstable, but Bulgaria’s economy has good

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian FM Mitov backs tougher measures against economic migrants arriving in the EU

January 19, 2016January 29, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov supports tougher measures against economic migrants arriving in the EU, he told reporters after an

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Europe 

Dimitriev elected head of Macedonia’s interim government, parliament dissolved

January 19, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

In an urgent session on the night of January 18, without the presence of the opposition, Macedonia’s parliament elected the new

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Europe 

Elections enigma in Serbia

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Why has Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic decided that the country should go to early elections? Because Serbian televisions have

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Bulgaria 

Situation in Bulgaria after heavy snowfall normalising, still serious in northern part of country

January 19, 2016January 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The situation in Bulgaria after the heavy snowfalls and rain of the past weekend was gradually normalising on January 19,

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