EC sets out requirements for Kosovo to move closer to visa liberalisation
Kosovo will have to adopt laws on co-operation in border management and a law on combating people trafficking, while amending
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EU claims that crisis is over are premature, analysts warn
European financial markets were mixed Monday after the budget deal struck by EU leaders Friday, which will see overall spending
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Number of counterfeit euro coins confiscated up by 17% in 2012, ECB report says
The number of counterfeit euro coins removed from circulation increased by 17 per cent from 157 000 in 2011 to
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Holocaust denier sent to see for himself
An unemployed computer technician named as György N. has become Hungary’s first convicted Holocaust denier after a court sentenced him
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Findings on Bourgas Airport attack will have consequences in the EU, Bulgarian Foreign Minister says
In the coming weeks and months, what Bulgaria has discovered about the terrorist bombing at Bourgas Airport will not remain
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Balkan offensive
Romanian, Bulgarian officials unimpressed as UK newspapers make fun of government brainwave to put off would-be immigrants Recent weeks have
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Bulgaria to gain in EU budget, PM Borissov says
As the European Council tussled in tough negotiations on the European Union’s 2014-2020 budget, with a proposal on the table
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Socialist leader Stanishev demands apology from EPP’s Daul for ‘despicable’ accusation
Sergei Stanishev, leader of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, has demanded a ‘full
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Western warnings pile up for Ukraine’s Yanukovych
Ukraine’s European partners issued multiple, unambiguous warnings this week: If Ukraine wants to sign an Association Agreement in November for
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