The emperor is a symbol of Bulgarian national identity whose repatriation stoked tensions with Greece.
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The small North Macedonian town of Kocani held a mass burial for victims of the Pulse nightclub fire.
People smashed out windows of a pub suspected to be owned by the same owner nightclub where a fire killed 59 people.
Local authorities arrest 20 people in connection with the blaze, including officials and the nightclub manager.
Around 20 people have been arrested in connection with fire at an illegal nightclub in North Macedonia.
More than 100 people injured in the deadly fire at a nightclub in Kocani, 100km (62 miles) east of the capital, Skopje.
What drives the popularity of Hungary’s Viktor Orban is not his geopolitical game but his governance model.
Sentiments towards the EU expressed by some civil society actors increasingly overlap with those of anti-EU forces.
Right-wing party secures a parliamentary majority, and its candidate has become the country’s first female president.
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