Bulgaria’s outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has claimed that his country would have joined Schengen if it were not for its internal political turmoil. “I believe that we would have entered Schengen by air at the (European Council) meeting on March 14, since, as you know, only the Netherlands was …

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Friday said that the French troops in Mali “completed an important part of their work”. Speaking to Europe-1 radio station, Le Drian underlined that “French troops fought against the rebels in a close combat”.

The Shura Council, Egypt’s upper house of parliament, approved a draft law submitted on Wednesday canceling the maritime borders of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement between Egypt and Greek Cyprus, according to a report published by the Middle East News Agency (MENA).