EU Considers Rolling Back Tariffs on Ukrainian Grain Imports
Amidst growing pressure from farmers and member states, the European Union is poised to reverse tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus
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The European Commission will approve additional € 3 billion in funding for Syrian refugees living in Turkey, officials from the European Union said before meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Varna later this month, Reuters reported.
Relations between the EU and Erdogan in recent years are tough, but the bloc depends on Turkey to stop immigration from the Middle East.
The Turkish state has accepted 3.5 million refugees from Syria and the EU has already used the first tranche of 3 billion euros to help them, the Dnevnik newspaper recalls.
Over one million refugees and migrants reached the EU in 2015, most of whom were able to enter the bloc via Turkey. Brussels has agreed to help move migrants to Turkish land in exchange for Ankara not allowing them to cross into Greece. The deal significantly reduced the number of refugees in the EU.
At the end of February, European Council President Donald Tusk announced that EU heads of state and government will decide in March whether the meeting scheduled in Varna with Erdogan will take place. Given that the next European Council meeting is 22-23 March and the EU-Turkey meeting in Varna scheduled for 26 March, it is clear that the decision will be made three days before the widely-advertised Bulgarian gathering, which is currently the chairman of the Council of the EU.
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As Mariya Gabriel accepted the mandate from President Rumen Radev on Monday, the clock started ticking for her to present a cabinet or return the mandate with or without the names of future ministers
Bulgaria has taken a firm stance against the recent Russian presidential elections held in the illegally occupied territories of Ukraine
The negotiations between GERB and "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB) have been extended until tomorrow at 12:00 noon, as announced by GERB.
Resigned Minister of Transport, Georgi Gvozdeikov, announced that Bulgaria is fully prepared to carry out air Schengen procedures,
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President Rumen Radev has officially handed the mandate to form a government to the GERB party
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