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Eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, have approved the shipment of weapons and ammunition worth at least EUR 1.2 B to the Middle East and Turkey since 2012, with some of the weapons ending up in the hands of Islamist fighters, according to a new investigative report.
“The Middle Eastern states and Turkey in turn, funnelled arms into brutal civil wars in Syria and Yemen, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP, have found,” BIRN said on its website.
The journalists’ investigation has revealed “a steady flow of weapons from Central and Eastern Europe airports to military bases in the Middle East.”
Videos and photos posted on social media point to the use of weapons and ammunition manufactured in Eastern and Central Europeby units of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army but also by fighters of Islamist groups in Syria and Yemen, according to the investigative report.
You can read here the original story “Making a killing: The 1.2 Billion Euro Arms Pipeline to Middle East”.
Brazen Bulgarian gangs "terrorise the elderly and rob them over their life savings with increasingly aggressive phone scams nettling millions of euros," according to an AFP story.
The prospect of US President Donald Trump's moving closer to Russia has scrambled the strategy of "balancing East and West" used for decades by countries like Bulgaria, the New York Times says.
Bulgarians have benefited a lot from their EU membership, with incomes rising and Brussels overseeing politicians, according to a New York Times piece.
German businesses prefer to trade with Bulgaria rather than invest into the country, an article on DW Bulgaria's website argues.
The truth about Bulgaria and Moldova's presidential elections is "more complicated" and should not be reduced to pro-Russian candidates winning, the Economist says.
President-elect Rumen Radev "struck a chord with voters by attacking the status quo and stressing issues like national security and migration," AFP agency writes after the presidential vote on Sunday.
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