Bulgarian education minister backs burqa ban idea
Bulgaria’s Education Minister Meglena Kouneva has expressed support for Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov’s idea of banning the wearing of the burqa
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Month: April 2016
Refugees held on Greek island wonder about their future
Men lounge on concrete slabs a few meters from the barbed-wire-topped chain-link fence that surrounds this center in Lesbos, Greece.
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Turkey forcibly sending war refugees back to Syria, Amnesty reports
Turkey has been rounding up and forcibly sending back about 100 Syrian refugees nearly every day since January, according to
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Bulgarian Prosecutor-General wants bans on burqa in public places
Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov says that his personal opinion is that there should be restrictions on wearing the burqa in
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Car cutback puts Bulgarian Cabinet ministers’ feet on the ground
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Ivailo Kalfin stole a march on his Cabinet colleagues by coming to work in a rented
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Migrant arrivals across Med eight times higher than in Q1 2015
At least 170 000 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea in the first three months of 2016, a
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Bulgaria has lowest hourly labour costs in EU – Eurostat
Bulgaria had the lowest hourly labour costs in the European Union in 2015, though among EU countries outside the euro
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Survey: 9 out of 10 refugees want to return home
The vast majority of the refugees say they would like to return home at some point when the war has
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Lukoil’s refinery in Bulgaria to be fined for air pollution
Lukoil Neftochim refinery in the Bulgarian port city of Bourgas would be handed a heavy fine for the venting of
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