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EU leaders meet in Malta to discuss Mediterranean migration issue

February 3, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Roumen Radev

Leaders of the European Union are meeting in Malta on February 3 in their first informal gathering of the year,

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Protesting Greek farmers block E-79 motorway near Bulgarian border checkpoint

January 31, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Protesting Greek farmers blocked the E-79 main road close to the Promachonas – Kulata border checkpoint with Bulgaria, public broadcaster

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Macedonian SDSM leader Zaev demands mandate to form a government

January 31, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The leader of SDSM (Macedonian Social Democratic Union), Zoran Zaev has requested a mandate from president George Ivanov to form

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Macedonia’s Gruevski fails to form government by January 29 deadline

January 30, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The leader of the Republic of Macedonia’s VMRO-DPMNE party, Nikola Gruevski, could not manage to form a new government by

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Closed Balkan route means lucrative times for human traffickers

January 27, 2017March 9, 2017 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

More than 7000 refugees and migrants have been stranded in Serbia since neighbouring countries closed their borders. Many are spending

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Turkey, Greece at odds as Athens denies Turkish coup extradition request

January 27, 2017March 9, 2017 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews Greece, Turkey

Turkey has threatened to cancel a migrant readmission deal with Greece after Greece’s Supreme Court rejected a request from Turkey

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Romania 2017 CVM report confirms ‘growing irreversibility’ of reform efforts

January 25, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, Romania

Ten years after joining the European Union with the caveat of regular reports on its judiciary reform efforts, Romania has

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Just more than two weeks into 2017, already more than 200 migrants and refugees dead in the Med

January 17, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Greece

About 2876 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea in 2017, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on

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Refugees in Serbia – stranded in a warehouse

January 17, 2017March 9, 2017 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

A great number of refugees are living in inhumane conditions in a warehouse in Belgrade. They are waiting to travel

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