On June 20 we mark the World Day of Refugees. On this occasion the UN Supreme Commissariat for refugees published a report, according to which in 2015 the number of refugees across the globe has for the first time in history gone above the number of 60 million people, reaching 65,3 million. For the first five months of this year alone the number of people having looked for asylum in Bulgaria are 6 421 persons from 13 countries. Refugee status has been given to 249 persons and another 180 have been given humanitarian status.
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern flank. “Today my Bulgarian and Romanian counterparts, Mr. Atanas Zaprianov and Mr. Angel..
The parliamentary group of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) has excluded 17 MPs. Among them is the co-chairman Dzhevdet Chakarov. The decision was read in the plenary hall by the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly,..
We discussed how to make NATO stronger, focusing on the collective, while at the same time strengthening the defense of each member country, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev said. He added that in the discussions in..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in..
Saturday will be sunny and hot. Clouds will form in the afternoon, and there may be brief showers in isolated places in the Eastern part of the..
“No towns or villages are at risk from the fires that have broken out around the country,” Chief Commissioner Alexander Dzhartov, Director of the..
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