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Netanyahu: Greece a true friend

January 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The strengthening of co-operation between Greece and Israel in energy, tourism, security, and other areas was agreed at a meeting in

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Fears mount of resurgent anti-Semitism in Europe

January 28, 2016 Jamie Dettmer of VOANews Poland

Seventy-one years ago, Soviet troops entered the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi extermination camp near Krakow, Poland, liberating the remaining 7,000 prisoners,

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Poland marks Auschwitz liberation, 71 years on

January 28, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Polish President Andrzej Duda said in an address at Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp in southern Poland, where Poland

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European Parliament head Martin Schulz to Jews: ‘Europe is your home today, every day and forever’

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

“It pains me that Jews again live in fear in Europe today, are not safe to go to a synagogue

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Hungary’s Orbán: Autocrat or misunderstood provocateur?

January 27, 2016 Jamie Dettmer of VOANews Hungary

They endured snow and cold.  A few hundred protesters turned out here in Hungary’s capital in a show of opposition

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Love for Clintons lingers in Kosovo, as country awaits US elections

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 VOANews Kosovo

In Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, the name Clinton is ubiquitous. Bill Clinton Boulevard bisects the city, on which a 10-foot effigy

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European Commission praises ‘sustainability’ of Romania judiciary reforms

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Romania made big steps towards proving the sustainability of its judiciary reforms, but 2016 would provide another crucial test in

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Freedom House: Government dysfunction among Balkan countries, migrant crisis pressure on EU principles

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey

The world was battered in 2015 by overlapping crises that fueled xenophobic sentiment in democratic countries, undermined the economies of

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EU considers renewed border checks

January 27, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, said Tuesday that it was not ruling out allowing member

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