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Month: March 2016

Europe 

ICTY jails Karadžić for 40 years for genocide, war crimes in Bosnia

March 24, 2016March 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has found Radovan Karadžić criminally responsible for genocide and war crimes in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Ministry tells citizens to be cautious about travel to Belgium

March 24, 2016March 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry on March 24 told Bulgarian citizens planning a trip to Brussels or Belgium to “carefully consider its

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Culture Minister orders Plovdiv tobacco warehouse rebuilt

March 24, 2016March 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Bulgaria’s Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov signed an order on March 24 2016 that the 8 Odrin Street building in

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Bulgaria 

US embassy Sofia ‘possible threat’ Facebook post irks Bulgarian PM

March 24, 2016March 25, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has publicly criticised the United States embassy in Sofia for posting an alert on Facebook

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria signs 300M euro loan agreement with EBRD to boost deposit guarantee fund

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s state deposit guarantee fund signed a loan agreement for 300 million euro with the European Bank for Reconstruction and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria sends humanitarian aid to Tabanovce refugee camp in Macedonia

March 24, 2016March 25, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Macedonia

Bulgaria sent two lorryloads of humanitarian aid on March 24 to refugees and migrants at the Tabanovce transit centre in

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Europe 

Europe migrant crisis: Bulgarian military may guard the border with Serbia

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev and his Serbian counterpart Zoran Djordjevic have held talks in Nis on steps against a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government adopts plan on strategy for combating radicalisation and terrorism

March 24, 2016March 25, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Bulgarian government adopted on March 23 its plan for a strategy for combating radicalisation and terrorism, which includes an

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Europe 

PM: Poland won’t accept refugees after Brussels attacks

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Europe migrant crisis, Poland

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said Wednesday that Poland cannot take any migrants under the EU relocation program following the

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