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European Court in landmark ruling on UK child benefits for EU citizens

June 14, 2016June 16, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The United Kingdom can require citizens from other European Union countries living in Britain to have a right to reside

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Nato to send four international battalions to Baltics, Poland

June 13, 2016 VOANews Nato, Poland

NATO will agree to deploy four international battalions to Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — countries that feel most threatened

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1000 Orthodox scholars urge Pan-Orthodox Council to go ahead

June 13, 2016June 13, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Press Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate received a notification this morning. An Open Letter of the Orthodox Scholars around

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More money needed for refugees, migrants in Greece, Balkans

June 11, 2016 Lisa Schlein of VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece

The U.N. refugee agency reports a multi-million-dollar appeal begun early this year on behalf of tens of thousands of refugees

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European Parliament approves rules to cut red tape on expats’ documents

June 10, 2016June 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Parliament adopted on June 10 a regulation, proposed by the European Commission, to cut costs and formalities for

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Athens confident euro working group will green-light funds disbursement

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency euro zone, Greece

Euro zone deputy finance ministers – the so-called Euro Working Group – will convene in Helsinki on June 9 to

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Concern grows in Brussels that Brexit could prove contagious

June 9, 2016 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews

Approval of the European Union has fallen sharply across the continent, according to new research, raising fears in Brussels of

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Russian Orthodox Patriarch: USSR preserved Christian morality

June 9, 2016 VOANews Russia

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, recently said that the Soviet Union preserved Russia’s Christian morality –

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Another car bomb explodes in Turkey

June 8, 2016 VOANews Turkey

Three police officers have been killed by a car bomb explosion outside a police station in Turkey near the Syrian

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