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EU ministers agreed Nov. 20 to get tough on border security after the devastating Paris attacks, as prosecutors said a third body had been found following a police raid on the ringleader's hideout.

The interior ministers of the EU member states will convene at an extraordinary meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council in order to discuss heightened security measures in the aftermath of last week's attacks in Paris.

Diplomatic shuttling between Ankara and Brussels has accelerated greatly as part of joint efforts to secure a solution to the growing refugee crisis amid expectations that an agreement will be finalized at a prospective Turkey-EU summit. 

Bulgaria's Ruse has been granted one of the European City of Sport 2016 awards at a gala ceremony in the European Parliament in Brussels.

The Group of Seven (G-7) industrial nations plan to tighten the regulation of digital currencies such as bitcoin, which they suspect the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is using to move funds secretly, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Nov. 18.

The European Commission said on Wednesday that it has adopted a list of 195 key energy infrastructure projects that form key building blocks of the EU's Energy Union.

The European Commission said on Wednesday that it adopted measures to make it more difficult to acquire and possess firearms in the European Union.

The European Commission intends to propose a common European border and coast guard in order to better guard the EU’s external borders, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos said.

The proposal will be officially put forward within December, while he also highlighted the need for greater European cooperation on this issue.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for about one hour in Turkey and they stressed the need to confront the violence and to promote the interfaith dialogue.

Mr. Tsipras stressed also the need for cooperation with Turkey highlighting that the issue is very high on the discussions agenda that he will have in Ankara later today.

The EU has made 'much progress' since the adoption of the Energy Union Framework Strategy nine months ago, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

While much remains to be done, next year will be important year of delivery, the Commission said in the State of the Energy Union Report published on Wednesday for the first time.