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Refugees in Serbia – stranded in a warehouse

January 17, 2017March 9, 2017 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

A great number of refugees are living in inhumane conditions in a warehouse in Belgrade. They are waiting to travel

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Refugees, migrants risk death as bitter cold grips Europe

January 14, 2017March 9, 2017 Lisa Schlein of VOANews Europe migrant crisis

U.N. aid agencies are appealing to authorities in Europe to assist and protect thousands of refugees and migrants trying to

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Germany to deport asylum-seekers back to Greece

January 14, 2017March 9, 2017 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Greece

Germany is set to reverse a six-year-old block on the deportation of asylum-seekers back to Greece, despite a humanitarian crisis

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria expelled 1410 non-EU migrants from the country in 2016 – Interior Ministry

January 9, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian Migration Directorate officials in 2016 expelled a total of 1410 people, mostly citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan, who had

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Bulgaria 

Two migrants found dead in Bulgaria’s Bourgas region as temperatures plummet

January 6, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian Border Police found two men, described as migrants who had entered the country illegally, dead of exposure and exhaustion

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria campaigns against illegal migration in lorries

December 29, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

The Bulgarian Interior Ministry and the Association of Bulgarian Enterprises for International Transport and Roads have unveiled a joint project

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Bulgaria 

European Commission awards 48.2M euro emergency funding to Bulgaria for border and migration management

December 23, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, European Commission

The European Commission has awarded an additional 48.2 million euro in emergency funding to Bulgaria under the Asylum, Migration and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Border Police chief: Illegal migration significantly down in 2016

December 22, 2016March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Bulgaria’s Border Police director-general Svetlan Kichikov says that the migration pressure situation in Bulgaria is calm and there are days

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Bulgaria 

More than 2000 have left Bulgaria’s refugee camps in the past month and a half – report

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Close to 600 people have left refugee camps in Bulgaria in the first two weeks of December and police do

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