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Cyprus to get 100 million euro from European Stability Mechanism

December 18, 2013December 18, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus

The disbursement of 100 million euro to Cyprus was approved by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) board of directors on

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Greece granted billion euro tranche as central bank warns against ‘polarised’ politics

December 18, 2013December 18, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece’s euro partners agreed on December 17 2013 to release the delayed one billion euro tranche of the country’s rescue

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Signing of Bulgaria-Turkey-Greece border co-operation deal postponed after Turkish interior minister’s son arrested

December 17, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Syrian refugees, Turkey

A scheduled signing in Sofia of an intergovernmental agreement between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey to build a joint contact centre

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Sons of three cabinet ministers arrested in Turkey

December 17, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Havoc has broken out in Turkey from the arrest, in a police operation in Istanbul, of 22 people including three

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Clashes in Bucharest over controversial amendments that boost MPs’ immunity

December 16, 2013December 16, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

About 2000 people clashed with police on the night of December 15 2013 in central Bucharest in a protest against

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Bulgaria 

Rocky path to unity for Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc

December 16, 2013December 16, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Reformist Bloc, an alliance of a number of right-wing and centrist parties currently lacking parliamentary seats, appears to be

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Greek PM Samaras rules out triple election scenario

December 16, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras has ruled out the possibility of simultaneous general, local and European Parliament elections in May,

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No fresh talks planned in Brussels between Pristina and Belgrade

December 15, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Serbia

The numerous meetings which in the most part end up without any deals, seem to have exhausted the European Union,

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President Jahjaga says that Kosovo is facing serious radicalism

December 13, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo

The President of the Republic of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, says that radicalism is one of the biggest problems in the

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