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Row in Bulgarian town of Belene over church sheltering Syrian refugee family

March 7, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Syrian refugees

In a case similar to the one in the Bulgarian town of Elin Pelin some weeks ago, there is a

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Europe 

EU gives Turkey 1.4BN euro for education and health of Syrian refugees

July 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Syrian refugees, Turkey

The European Commission (EC) said on July 28 that it was bringing to more than two billion euro the total

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Europe 

Europe’s migrant challenge expected to continue into 2016

December 31, 2015January 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Syrian refugees

Europe in 2015 faced its most severe migration crisis in centuries as an estimated one million people – mostly Muslims

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Europe 

Migration crisis: Seaborne arrivals in Europe top one million

December 30, 2015January 29, 2016 Lisa Schlein of VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Syrian refugees

The UN refugee agency reports more than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea this year, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria detains Macedonian national on charges of trafficking of migrants

December 29, 2015December 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

migrBulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on December 29 that police has detained a Macedonian national as he was driving a lorry

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Perspectives 

Year in Review: Europe’s migrant crisis and Bulgaria

December 28, 2015January 4, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Greece, Rossen Plevneliev, Syrian refugees, Turkey

More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by land and sea in 2015, in a crisis that

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Europe 

20% of migrant arrivals by sea in Europe in 2015 are children

December 1, 2015December 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, Syrian refugees, Turkey

Children make up at least one in five of the 870 000 refugees and migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean

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Bulgaria 

Migrant flow into Bulgaria ‘practically stopped’ – Interior Minister

November 27, 2015December 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Syrian refugees

The migration flow into Bulgaria has practically stopped in recent weeks, Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova said during Question Time in

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Europe 

Migrant arrivals in Europe in 2015 approach 900 000 mark

November 27, 2015December 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovenia, Syrian refugees

The number of migrants, including refugees, that have arrived in Europe by land and sea since the beginning of 2015

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