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      Portugal registers boom in number of requests for asylum
      Mar17

      Portugal registers boom in number of requests for asylum

      Portugal has been registering a boom in the number of asylum requests it receives, according to TSF radio station. Teresa Tito de Morais, president of the Portuguese Centre for Refugees, said that the country received a never-before-seen 136 asylum requests in the first two months of 2015 alone. Most of them came from Ukrainian citizens, followed...

      Raud: even opposition proud of Crimea integration
      Mar17

      Raud: even opposition proud of Crimea integration

      Even those who usually criticize the Russian political elite are celebrating the annexation of Crimea, says Neeme Raud, ERR’s Moscow correspondent. …read more Source:...

      Iohannis: Romania wants to be active factor in finding political solutions to eastern Ukraine crisis
      Mar17

      Iohannis: Romania wants to be active factor in finding political solutions to eastern Ukraine crisis

      President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday said Romania is supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, underscoring Romania’s wish to be an active factor in the find of political solutions to the eastern Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...

      Unrest in Ukrainian town after tank kills 8-year-old
      Mar17

      Unrest in Ukrainian town after tank kills 8-year-old

      An 8-year-old girl was killed in the eastern Ukrainian town of Konstantinovka when Ukrainian army soldiers lost control of a tank and hit several pedestrians.Large scale unrest spread through this town, located in the Donbass region, north of Donetsk. Angry local residents “wanted to lynch the soldiers responsible for the death.”...

      [Ticker] EU sanctions on Russia expose internal rifts
      Mar17

      [Ticker] EU sanctions on Russia expose internal rifts

      Plans to extend EU sanctions on Russia have exposed internal rifts between member states, reports The Financial Times. The paper says UK, Nordic and Baltic countries want sanctions on Russian energy, finance and defence sectors to continue after the July deadline. Others like France, Italy and Spain are less keen. …read more Source:...

      Foreign minister denies Ukrainians trained in Poland
      Mar17

      Foreign minister denies Ukrainians trained in Poland

      Poland’s foreign minister Grzegorz Schetyna has denied that Ukrainian revolutionaries were trained in Poland, following claims made by President Vladimir Putin in a documentary aired on Sunday. …read more Source: Polskie Radio dla...

      Crimea has left Ukraine ‘for good’: PM
      Mar17

      Crimea has left Ukraine ‘for good’: PM

      Crimea’s prime minister has told the BBC the peninsula has returned to its historical Russian homeland and will never again be part of Ukraine. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...

      Ukraine PM demands putting troops on full combat alert
      Mar17

      Ukraine PM demands putting troops on full combat alert

      Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk called on the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff to put troops on full combat alert Monday, media reports say. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...

      Bulgarian Minister Discusses Judicial Reform with Senior Officials of CoE, ECHR
      Mar17

      Bulgarian Minister Discusses Judicial Reform with Senior Officials of CoE, ECHR

      Bulgaria’s Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov and Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), have discussed Bulgaria’s judicial reform strategy and the independence of the judiciary in the country. Ivanov is on a two-day working visit to Strasbourg on March 16-17. Ivanov’s agenda includes high-level...

      [Opinion] The imperative of avoiding another Cold War
      Mar17

      [Opinion] The imperative of avoiding another Cold War

      The Ukrainian crisis has no winners, only losers. The task of the statesmen of today is to find a way out of this tragic confrontation, writes Hynek Kmonicek, Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Czech Republic. …read more Source:...