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Month: August 2016

Europe 

Frontex announces stress tests for Europe’s external borders

August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Greece

The director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, plans to introduce a stress test on the external borders of Europe of a

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Europe 

Terrorism, Brexit pose daunting challenges for EU summit

August 28, 2016 VOANews Brexit, Europe migrant crisis

As the 27-member European Union wakes up from its long August recess next week, thoughts are turning to what will

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: Bulgaria will not accept migrants from EU

August 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

Bulgaria will not accept migrants returned by any European Union member state while there is no readmission agreement, Bulgarian Prime

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Interior Minister in surprise night inspection of Sunny Beach

August 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova paid a surprise night visit to the country’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach, observing

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Bulgaria 

Germany to aid Bulgaria in getting more support for border security

August 28, 2016August 30, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Germany will help Bulgaria to get further support for its border security, it emerged after talks between chancellor Angela Merkel

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Bulgaria 

Boiko Borissov: ‘I am afraid of what is going on in Turkey’

August 27, 2016March 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said he was “afraid of what is going on in Turkey”. Referring to that country,

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Europe 

UNHCR worries EU-Turkey refugee deal could unravel

August 27, 2016 Lisa Schlein of VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

The U.N. refugee agency has expressed concern that the agreement between the European Union and Turkey to curb the flow

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov calls on EU to lift visas for Turkey, to avert migrant wave

August 26, 2016August 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, disturbed by the danger of a wave of migrants and refugees crossing from Turkey into

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian nationalist newspaper becomes latest to cease publication

August 26, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Media

Bulgarian nationalist weekly Desant, owned by National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria leader Valeri Simeonov and self-described as a

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