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Month: January 2016

Europe 

EC proposes strengthening exchange of criminal records on non-EU citizens in step against terrorism

January 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission has proposed improving the exchange of criminal records of non-EU citizens in the EU by upgrading the

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Europe 

Uncertainties about Macedonia’s elections, Hahn to arrive in Skopje in February

January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn is expected to visit Skopje again in mid-February, with a precise plan comprised of three

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Sport 

Dimitrov books Federer showdown at Australian Open

January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Grigor Dimitrov overcame the dogged resistance of Argentine Marco Trungelliti on January 20, winning 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 to secure his

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Europe 

Polish PM defends her government in European Parliament

January 20, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo worked to reassure members of European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday that Poland did nothing

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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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