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Documentary claims Czech president Zeman was in LSD experiment

October 8, 2015October 8, 2015 The Prague Post Czech Republic

A documentary shown by public broadcaster Czech Television claims decades ago, during the communist regime, a young Miloš Zeman as

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Europe’s migrant crisis: Roundup, October 2

October 2, 2015October 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic, Greece, Macedonia, Syrian refugees, Turkey

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry, State Agency for National Security and prosecutors detained 46 alleged people-traffickers and 501 migrants who had entered

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Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2015 awarded to Russia’s Ludmilla Alexeeva

September 29, 2015 The Prague Post Czech Republic, Russia

The third Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights –

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Europe’s migrant crisis: September 28 roundup

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Serbia, Turkey

“We will not turn our country into a refugee camp”, Greece’s deputy immigration policy minister Yannis Mouzalas said in an interview

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Europe’s migrant crisis: Roundup, September 23

September 23, 2015September 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey

European Union leaders are gathering on September 23 2015 for an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the next steps after

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Ahead of EU summit, Central European countries keep up fight against migrant quotas

September 23, 2015September 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia

A special meeting of European Union leaders on September 23 to discuss the migrant crisis was expected to see four

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EU ministers agree to migrant quota plan

September 22, 2015September 23, 2015 VOANews Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia

European Union interior ministers approved a controversial plan Tuesday to relocate 120,000 migrants throughout the 28-nation bloc, overriding vehement opposition

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Europe’s migrant crisis: Roundup, September 17

September 17, 2015September 18, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey

Migrants and refugees are pouring into Germany at a rate of 1800 a day through the border with Austria, German

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Czech police accuse two men of attempting to bomb Prague – Varna bus

September 10, 2015September 13, 2015 The Prague Post Czech Republic, Varna

Czech police have accused two men of attempting to firebomb a bus going between Prague and Varna, Bulgaria, on May

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