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Day: February 23, 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Shell sign Black Sea off-shore oil and gas exploration contract

February 23, 2016April 19, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Royal Dutch Shell signed a contract on February 23 to explore for oil and gas in Bulgaria’s Black Sea economic

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to make CCB investigation report available to MPs, not public

February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on February 23 that it would make the report by AlixPartners Services UK LLP, the company

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Bulgaria 

Talks with Anastasiades open new horizon for co-operation, Plevneliev tells Cyprus business forum

February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev told a Bulgarian-Cyprus business forum on February 23 that talks with visiting Cypriot president Nikos Anastasiades

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Europe 

Mediterranean migrant, refugee arrivals in Europe so far in 2016 top 100 000

February 23, 2016February 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Greece

Migrant and refugee arrivals in Greece and Italy in 2016 this week exceeded 100 000, the International Organization for Migration

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Europe 

Afghan migrants, stalled at Macedonian border, sent back to Athens

February 23, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia

Greek police have begun removing hundreds of migrants from a camp at the country’s border with Macedonia. The migrants, most

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Minister denies Turkey is expelling consul from Istanbul

February 23, 2016February 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has rejected media reports that the country’s consul-general in Istanbul, Angel Angelov, has been declared

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv to begin restoring Odeon archaeological site

February 23, 2016February 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

After nearly one year, Bulgaria’s National Institute for Cultural Heritage has issued a permit to Plovdiv municipality to begin repairing

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv starts campaign to neuter thousands of stray cats and dogs

February 23, 2016February 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv municipality has begun a campaign to neuter stray cats and dogs after the latest estimates showed a huge rise

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Europe 

Europol launches European Migrant Smuggling Centre

February 23, 2016February 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

EU police agency Europol launched on February 22 2016 the new European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC), described as having the goal

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