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“We will not turn our country into a refugee camp”, Greece’s deputy immigration policy minister Yannis Mouzalas said in an interview with Avgi newspaper, adding that the ministry’s intention is to […]
European Union leaders are gathering on September 23 2015 for an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the next steps after interior ministers agreed to a plan to distribute 120 000 […]
A special meeting of European Union leaders on September 23 to discuss the migrant crisis was expected to see four EU countries opposed to the refugee redistribution quota system keep […]
European Union interior ministers approved a controversial plan Tuesday to relocate 120,000 migrants throughout the 28-nation bloc, overriding vehement opposition from four ex-communist eastern nations. The interior ministers adopted the [& ...
Migrants and refugees are pouring into Germany at a rate of 1800 a day through the border with Austria, German police said on September 16. The influx is causing some […]
Czech police have accused two men of attempting to firebomb a bus going between Prague and Varna, Bulgaria, on May 16. The suspects, aged 26 and 29, remain in custody. […]
A Russian television film that depicts the Soviet suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring as having been in response to a supposed attempt by Nato to engineer a coup in […]
Nato’s supreme commander in Europe said that an armored vehicles convoy of US troops crossing eastern Europe is a “good message of reassurance” to member nations for the military alliance’s […]
(Main photo: Anastasia Vlasova/Kyiv Post
Numerous events are planned in the Czech Republic to celebrate 25 years since the Velvet Revolution. Some 16 civic groups and organisations are joining together to present concerts, films, discussions […]
