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Controversy surrounds Bulgarian PM Borissov over ‘hot spots’ for refugees

September 24, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

Reports from the special European Council meeting on the migrant crisis that Bulgaria is willing to host “hot spots” refugee

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to receive 852 refugees in first phase of quota scheme

September 23, 2015September 24, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Syrian refugees

Bulgaria will receive 852 migrants redirected from Greece and Italy in the first phase of the refugee quota reallocation scheme

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Europe 

Alexis Tsipras unveils new Greek cabinet

September 23, 2015September 23, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Returning prime minister Alexis Tsipras announced the composition of the new Greek government in the early hours of Wednesday. Tsipras

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President criticises EU disunity on migrant crisis

September 22, 2015September 22, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria is among the countries that is complying with European rules relating to refugees, while the EU needs to come

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Europe 

Greek elections: Interview with Artemis Matheopoulos, Golden Dawn MP

September 19, 2015September 19, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Mr. Mattheopoulos, you have complained that the detention of your party’s officials is political persecution. However, the charges they face

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Europe 

Greek elections: Interview with Evaggelos Meimarakis, president of New Democracy

September 17, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Mr President, the central slogan in the September 20 election campaign is “Greece Forward”. Who took Greece backwards? Was it

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Europe 

Greek elections: Pollsters paint confusing picture as Tsipras and Meimarakis turn to undecided voters

September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Two new opinion polls published on September 16 paint a conflicting picture ahead of the September 20 2015 general election in Greece.

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Europe 

Romanian president: ‘The EU might force us into accepting more migrants’

September 17, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

The European Commission might twist Romania’s arm and make it accept more migrants that it is willing to take in. And that was

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria rejects claims that thousands of migrants are headed to its border

September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Turkey

Claims that tens of thousands of migrants are headed towards the Bulgaria border are not true, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov

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