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An Arabic language “Refugee Handbook,” has ranked Bulgaria first among countries asylum seekers should avoid. Refugees have said xenophobia and Islamophobia are widespread and that they try to skirt around […]
NATO is worried that Russia may be shipping arms to Syria, boosting military support for the Assad regime. The Kremlin, meanwhile, has threatened consequences over Bulgaria’s decision to block its […]
There have been more clashes between migrants and police on the island of Lesbos, as they sought to board a ferry for the Greek mainland. The ferry has since arrived […]
Germany’s cost of care for refugees could reach around 10 billion euro ($11 billion) in 2015. Amid internal criticism over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decisions, the CDU and SPD are due to […]
Thousands of Budapest citizens and tourists make their way cautiously around thousands of migrants squatting or lying down in the underpass at Budapest’s Keleti train station which also shares a […]
It took only a matter of minutes for Austrian police to find its first van attempting to carry seven smuggled refugees across the Hungary border – painstaking work and a […]
With loans totaling approximately $25 billion, Greece is currently the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) most important customer. “The IMF has crossed the ‘point of no return’,” says Rolf J. Langhammer [&hell ...
Police in Hungary announced on Sunday they had arrested a fifth suspect, a Bulgarian citizen, in connection with last week’s discovery of a truck abandoned in Austria containing the bodies […]
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was expected to announce early elections in an effort to quell rebellion within his party. Many left-wing lawmakers are disappointed with what they see as […]
Slovakia has said it will only accept Christian refugees under an EU relocation scheme. The country, due to receive 200 people under the EU plan to resettle 40,000 new arrivals, […]
