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South-eastern Europe slow to pick up EU’s right to be forgotten

November 26, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

A year and a half after EU’s top court ruled that search engines must consider requests to remove links to

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Turkey braces for economic repercussions after downing of Russian jet

November 26, 2015 Dorian Jones of VOANews Russia, Turkey

The news that a Turkish fighter jet downed a Russian plane Tuesday could signal a further slump in Turkey’s already

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European leaders on refugee route pledge co-operation

November 26, 2015 VOANews Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Slovenia

Southeast and central European leaders have pledged closer cooperation on combating terrorism and dealing with the regional refugee crisis that

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Polish government spokesperson: Tusk should be tried over Smolensk air crash

November 26, 2015 The Warsaw Voice Poland

A Polish government spokeswoman Elzbieta Witek has said that Poland’s former prime minister and current president of the European Council

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Brussels emerges from lockdown

November 25, 2015 Deutsche Welle

A sense of normalcy returned to the Belgian capital on Wednesday as schools resumed lessons and public transportation services in

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UN Secretary-General: New European border restrictions on refugees, migrants violate human rights

November 25, 2015November 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Syrian refugees

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned Balkan states that border restrictions based on a refugee’s or migrant’s nationality infringed

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Eight arrests as four EU countries act jointly against crime group smuggling Albanians into EU

November 25, 2015November 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Albania, Czech Republic

Judicial and law enforcement authorities from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany and the UK, supported by Europol and Eurojust, took

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Slovak police search hotels for foreigners

November 25, 2015 The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

Following prime minister Robert Fico’s statement that the government would monitor every Muslim in Slovakia, the police started searching for

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Russia threatens to cut off gas, coal to Ukraine

November 24, 2015 VOANews energy, Russia, Ukraine

Russia threatened Tuesday to cut off natural gas and to halt coal deliveries to Ukraine, worsening a dispute over a

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