The Bulgarian Ministry of Defense will be responsible for the transportation of employees of the Ministry of Interior, who guard the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. More than 700 new employees of “Border Police” will be recruited and the construction of the fence with a length of 131 kilometers along the border will be completed. This was what Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva, Interior Minister Veselin Vuchkov and Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev said during a meeting of the Council of Ministers. In 2014 some 30 million euros were spent to deal with the refugee pressure and next year Minister Vuchkov says 50 million will be needed. Migration pressure is expected to rise in March, Meglena Kuneva announced.
At a ceremony within the frameworks of the Holiday & Spa Expo International Tourist Fair in Sofia, Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova was awarded a gold prize by the “Tourism and leisure” magazine for asserting Bulgaria as a year-round..
“Bulgaria is at an advanced stage in its preparations for all possible Brexit scenarios. We have two plans of action for the withdrawal of the UK from the EU – if there is a deal, and if there is no deal with the EU,” said Prime Minister Boyko..
Bulgarian PM Boyko Boissov met with the PM of Libya Fayez al-Sarraj within the frameworks of the Munich security conference. The two expressed the hope that the good relations between the two countries will be restored, and emphasized that the..
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