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Row over Greek minister’s proposal to seek investors among refugees

March 28, 2016March 30, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Greece

Greece’s Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Mardas caused uproar on March 27 when he suggested potential investors may be found among refugees

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Europe 

Macedonia boosts security measures over refugee crisis

March 28, 2016March 30, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Macedonia, Serbia

Security authorities in Macedonia have boosted security measures in the northern area of the country on the border with Serbia.

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Bulgaria 

Europe migrant crisis: Main threat to Bulgaria from Greek, not Turkish, border – PM Borissov

March 25, 2016March 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told Parliament on March 25 that he does not expect a massive influx of migrants

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria sends humanitarian aid to Tabanovce refugee camp in Macedonia

March 24, 2016March 25, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Macedonia

Bulgaria sent two lorryloads of humanitarian aid on March 24 to refugees and migrants at the Tabanovce transit centre in

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Europe migrant crisis: Bulgarian military may guard the border with Serbia

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev and his Serbian counterpart Zoran Djordjevic have held talks in Nis on steps against a

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Europe 

PM: Poland won’t accept refugees after Brussels attacks

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Europe migrant crisis, Poland

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said Wednesday that Poland cannot take any migrants under the EU relocation program following the

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Europe 

Turkey demands EU meet commitment to visa-free travel

March 23, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Just days after the announcement of a European Union-Turkey refugee deal, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the bloc, saying it

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Europe 

Athens concerned EU-Turkey refugee deal will not be honoured

March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

Less than a week after the EU-Turkey agreement on dealing with the refugee crisis, the Greek government appears concerned that the

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Europe 

Crunch time for refugees on the island of Lesbos

March 21, 2016 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

The 1,500 refugees at the Karatepe camp on the Greek island of Lesbos are nervous. Since the EU struck a

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