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The passport-free Schengen zone is "in danger" because of Europe's refugee crisis, Germany warned on Jan. 4 after Nordic countries announced new controls at their borders to stem a migrant influx.

"Freedom of movement is an important principle - one of the biggest achievements [in the European Union] in recent years," Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told reporters.

Bulgaria is ranked 45th by the the Best Countries for Business report of Forbes magazine.

Performing among the world's "top 10" (9th) in "Trade Freedom", the country is also doing well in Investor Protection (14th) and Monetary Freedom (15th) and moderately in Technology (38th) and Personal Freedom (41th).

Michael Schumacher’s former manager Willi Weber, aged 74, claims that he has been banned from seeing the F1 driver despite the fact that he is widely credited with Schumacher’s success. He said that the Michael’s wife, Corinna, has banned him from visiting the house of the famous driver who was left in a coma following a skiing accident in 2013.

Lockheed Martin Corp met its goal of delivering 45 F-35 fighter jets to the U.S. government and key allies in 2015, a 25 percent increase from 2014 that brought the number of jets delivered to 154, the Pentagon said on Dec. 21.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree imposing trade barriers on Ukraine in response to Kiev joining Western sanctions against Moscow.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" raked in an estimated $120.5 million in its first full day in U.S. and Canadian theaters, setting an industry record, Disney said on Dec. 19.

The movie is likely to become the highest grossing film in an opening weekend Disney added, while reporting that it had already made $250 million globally.

Specialists from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein will familiarise themselves with the history of the ancient Thracian city of Perperikon near the Bulgarian town of Kardzhali.

This will be done within the framework of the "Perperikon - past and future" project, which will be realised next year.

The UN released its annual Human Development Index (HDI) for 2015 and Norway is on the top for the 12th year in a row.

Norway scored 0.944 followed by Australia and Switzerland making them the best countries to live in for health, life expectancy, education and high incomes, whereas Greece ranked 29th with 0.865.

Turkey and eight EU countries as well as the EU Commission will come together to discuss the Syrian refugee issue at a meeting on Dec. 17 in Brussels, where Ankara hopes to learn the number of refugees these countries will receive in the coming year. 

Climate talks were ongoing in Paris for two weeks, but somehow our media was not very interested in them.
We'd rather monitor the developments on the chaos in the Middle East, where greed, power and ambition play quite a role.