Refugees stuck in Greece scrambling for safe havens
War refugees from Syria and Iraq trapped in northern Greece for weeks never held out much hope that meetings between
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Europe migrant crisis
Leaders in Sofia and Skopje agree on joint measures against migrant-trafficking at border
Bulgarian Prime Minister and Republic of Macedonia president Gjorge Ivanov have agreed on joint measures to suppress trafficking of migrants
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Doubts grow as EU leaders meet on migrant deal with Turkey
European Union leaders begin talks Thursday to work out a migrant deal with Turkey that is littered with political, legal
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Just 900 of the 160 000 refugees in Greece and Italy were resettled in other EU countries
The European Commission is calling on EU countries for “urgent decisive action” to accelerate the pace of the resettlement process. The
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Eastern Europe opposed to EU refugee plan
Ahead of the EU-Turkey summit, Angela Merkel continues to aim for a pan-European solution to the refugee crisis. Some eastern
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Along Greek-Macedonian border, sense of defeat takes grip
He stood for hours in the middle of the train tracks crossing the northern Greek village of Idomeni, just metres
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Greece sets up three refugee camps near the Albanian border
Greek authorities said that they are working hard to set up three new welcome centres for refugees in the area
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Bulgarian Cabinet proposes to pay close to 6M euro towards EU 3BN euro deal with Turkey
Bulgaria’s Cabinet agreed on March 16 2016 to ask the National Assembly to ratify a contribution of 5.9 million euro
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Bulgarian Cabinet appoints new head of State Agency for Refugees
Bulgaria’s Cabinet has appointed Petya Purvanova, who had been interior minister in the 2013 Raykov caretaker cabinet, as the new
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