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European Commission adopts Rule of Law Recommendation on situation in Poland

July 28, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Poland

The European Commission issued an official recommendation for the Polish government in the second stage of the ongoing rule of

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Austria, Hungary and Europol dismantle migrant smuggling ring

July 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Hungary

European police agency Europol’s European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC) has supported the Austrian and Hungarian authorities to detect and dismantle

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Tsipras begins dialogue for a ‘new Greece’ by 2021

July 26, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced the beginning of a wide and long debate on reviewing the Greek constitution with

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Erdogan’s purges threaten future of Turkey’s secular society

July 26, 2016 Luis Ramirez of VOANews Turkey

Watchers see Turkey’s failed coup and the subsequent purge carried out by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as part of

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Poland approves final version of Constitutional Tribunal law

July 25, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland’s lower house, after a heated debate on Friday, approved virtually all amendments made by the Senate upper house to

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No terror link seen in Munich shooting spree

July 24, 2016 VOANews

An 18-year-old German-Iranian man identified as David Ali Sonboly, who opened fire in a crowded shopping mall in Munich Friday

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IMF: Eastern European emigration harmful for domestic economies

July 23, 2016July 28, 2016 Deutsche Welle IMF

Emigration has led to positive outcomes for migrants, and for the EU as a whole. Yet it may also have

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Turkish schools, charities close in Erdogan’s first state-of-emergency decree

July 23, 2016 VOANews Turkey

More than 1,000 private schools have been closed in Turkey, as well as a thousand or so various associations and

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German police: 8 dead in apparent terror attack

July 22, 2016July 27, 2016 VOANews

As police hunt those responsible for a deadly shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Munich, they are already calling

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