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Party leadership of Greece’s Golden Dawn to appear in court

September 30, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The leadership of neo – Nazi Golden Dawn is to appear in court this week. Golden Dawn MP Christos Pappas

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Europe 

Greek police arrest Golden Dawn party leader, MPs

September 28, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek police have arrested Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the far-right Golden Dawn Party, on charges of forming a criminal

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Bulgaria 

‘Great possibility’ that Bulgaria will get EC funding to assist in refugee crisis

September 27, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency European Commission, Syrian refugees

There is a great possibility that Bulgaria will get funding from the European Commission to assist the country in dealing

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Perspectives 

Will Boiko’s boycott tactics spoil his own future?

September 27, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

ince the Bulgarian Socialist Party government came to power in May 2013, opposition leader and former prime minister Boiko Borissov

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Europe 

Greeks take to the street in anti-fascist protests amid crackdown on neo-Nazis

September 26, 2013September 26, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Thousands of Greeks participated in anti-fascist rallies in Athens and other major cities across the country Wednesday. Rallies in Athens

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Europe 

Libya recognises the independence of Kosovo

September 26, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo

In the course of September 25 2013, Kosovo’s independence was recognised by two countries. After Granada, it was Libya which

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian union confederation foresees autumn strikes and protests unless demands met

September 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) foresees a hard autumn with protests in many sectors unless a

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Bulgaria 

Details emerge of traffic police bribery schemes – and the risks of attempted bribery

September 25, 2013September 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Tsvetlin Yovchev

Two years on from the September 2011 special operation to catch Bulgarian traffic police in the act of bribery, further

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Europe 

Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch opposes Belgrade Pride Parade

September 24, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia, Slovakia

Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) Patriarch Irinej said that “nowadays nothing is so endangered as matrimony and family which are being

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