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Day: January 27, 2016

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Bulgaria joins in marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27, 2016March 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Bulgaria joined in marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 2016, the day that commemorates the Nazi mass murder

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Cabinet approves further 34.1M leva for fence at Turkish border

January 27, 2016January 29, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on January 27 2016 a sum of 34.1 million leva (about 17.4 million euro) for the extension

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Bulgaria 

Protesting Greek farmers threaten ‘indefinite’ blockade of borders after repeatedly obstructing Bulgarian, Turkish frontiers

January 27, 2016January 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Hundreds of Greek farmers blocked two border crossings with Bulgaria on January 27 in the latest in a series of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to change Chief of Defence

January 27, 2016January 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

Bulgaria’s Cabinet agreed on January 27 2016 to submit a proposal to President Rossen Plevneliev, constitutionally commander-in-chief of the armed

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Bulgaria 

Car of Plovdiv mayor’s wife burnt in early-morning arson attack

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

A car leased and used by Denitsa Toteva, spouse of Plovdiv mayor Ivan Totev, was burnt out outside the family

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Europe 

Freedom House: Government dysfunction among Balkan countries, migrant crisis pressure on EU principles

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey

The world was battered in 2015 by overlapping crises that fueled xenophobic sentiment in democratic countries, undermined the economies of

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Europe 

EU considers renewed border checks

January 27, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, said Tuesday that it was not ruling out allowing member

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Europe 

Greece to hold general strike on February 4 over social security bill

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

All unions in Greece have decided on a general strike in the private and public sector  on February 4 –

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Perspectives 

Opinion: EU levels empty Schengen threat at Greece

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 Bernd Riegert of Deutsche Welle Greece, Macedonia, Turkey

The EU’s current plan is to protect external borders and, if necessary, expel Greece – not from the eurozone, but

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