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Serbia ready to accept 6000 refugees during the winter

December 16, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Serbia’s role in coping with the refugees crisis has been praised by the European Union and we will continue in

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Number of migrant and refugee arrivals in Europe in 2015 approaches million mark

December 11, 2015December 14, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia

A total of 985 312 migrants, including refugees, have arrived in Europe since January 2015, according to the International Organization

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Corruption alleged as asylum-seekers stuck on Serbia – Bulgaria border

December 8, 2015December 10, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Asylum-seekers, volunteers, and local groups have told Human Rights Watch (HRW) the process for registration of asylum-seekers awaiting registration by

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Serbian PM Vucic sacks defence minister

December 8, 2015December 8, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Bratislav Gasic cannot remain Serbian defence minister, premier Aleksandar Vucic said on December 7. Gasic had offended “all women in

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The Balkan route to Western Europe for Yugoslavia guns

December 6, 2015December 6, 2015 Deutsche Welle Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia

Many weapons on Europe’s black market come via the Balkans. The terrorists in the Paris attacks allegedly used such weapons.

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UN Secretary-General: New European border restrictions on refugees, migrants violate human rights

November 25, 2015November 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Syrian refugees

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned Balkan states that border restrictions based on a refugee’s or migrant’s nationality infringed

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Hundreds of refugees remain isolated in Macedonia following the Serb blockade

November 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia, Serbia

Hundreds of refugees from African and Asian countries have gathered in refugee camps in Tabanoc, near the Serbian border. This

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Serbia ‘protects’ itself, limits migrant flow

November 19, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia, Serbia

Economic migrants from Macedonia cannot enter Serbia because Croatia and Slovenia had announced earlier they would not accept them, Serbian

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Can the Balkans kick its jihadi habit?

November 17, 2015November 18, 2015 VOANews Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia

As the camera pans across a group of Bosnian children holding an Islamic State flag, they chant greetings to IS

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