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Donald Tusk in Sofia: ‘Our goal is to minimise the costs of Brexit for all EU citizens’

April 4, 2017April 5, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit, Roumen Radev, Schengen

European Council President Donald Tusk, speaking during a visit to Bulgarian capital city Sofia, said that the country’s citizens only

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Europe 

EU proposes new system to strengthen security checks on visa-free travellers

November 16, 2016November 18, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen

The European Commission said on November 16 that it was proposing to establish a European Travel Information and Authorisation System

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Europe 

Schengen: European Council approves temporary border controls by five countries for three months

November 11, 2016November 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Schengen

The European Council said on November 11 that it had decided that five countries – Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and

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Europe 

EU border controls to get a further three-month extension

October 25, 2016 Deutsche Welle Schengen

The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, is to put a three-month extension request to member states, it said in

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Bulgaria 

Mitov: Schengen area needs to be kept as it is

April 25, 2016April 25, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Macedonia, Russia, Schengen, Turkey

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Daniel Mitov gave an exclusive interview to IBNA. The head of Bulgarian diplomacy spoke

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Europe 

In Sofia, Hungarian PM Orbán slams EU on migration, ‘double standards’ on Bulgaria and Schengen

January 29, 2016February 4, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Hungary, Schengen

During a visit to Sofia, Hungarian prime minister Victor Orbán has sharply critised European Union policies on dealing with the

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Europe 

Lagarde: ‘Make or break’ point for Schengen

January 24, 2016January 25, 2016 VOANews IMF, Schengen

The chief of the International Monetary Fund says she believes Europe’s refugee crisis is placing the continent’s cherished Schengen zone

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria raises Schengen membership issue during Steinmeier visit to Sofia

March 10, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev, Schengen

Bulgaria has met the technical criteria for joining the European Union’s Schengen visa zone and this had been confirmed by

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has held more than 200 would-be illegal immigrants so far this year

June 4, 2013June 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen

The latest arrest by Bulgarian border police of would-be illegal migrants, six people who said they were from Syria and

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