Bulgarian emigrants are planning to protest against the restrictions at the forthcoming elections, Sega daily informs on Wednesday. The website of the Central Election Commission shows that the restrictions allowing a foreign country to open 35 polling stations only would cause hide chaos and long queues in Great Britain and elsewhere. Until 5 pm on Tuesday, people living in the UK sent over 6,300 letters calling on the authorities to open polling stations in their residential district. Bulgarians living in 46 UK cities filed such requests and now the Central Election Commission has to choose only 35 of them, in order to adhere to the legislation. Bulgarians in Germany also threatened to launch street protests, because the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was unable to explain why the German authorities allowed Bulgaria to open polling stations in eight cities only.

The migrant pressure is undoubtedly the biggest challenge to the security and the future of Bulgaria and the European Union, Trud daily writes. That problem can also cause major headache and change electoral adjustments and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already experienced that in a series of losses during the local voting. Her rating also dwindled due to the migrant crisis. The Bulgarian authorities have also started to feel the effect of the migrant crisis and the recent turmoil around their controversial idea to accommodate refugees in Bulgarian municipalities as well as the anti-migrant protests further worsened that problem.

The tourism sector will be able to employ workers from non-EU countries for a period of 90 days, in order to fill the gap at the labor market, Bulgaria’s Minister of Labor and Social Policies Zornitsa Rusinova announced at a public debate about the problem regarding the lack of personnel in tourism, 24 Chassa informs. The Bulgarian cabinet has already approved amendments to the labor migration act, Minister Rusinova told representatives of the tourist sector. The local employers were allowed to employ foreign nationals for at least one year until now, the newspaper further explains.

The information pointing to the lack of oil and gas in Khan Asparoukh section of the Black Sea is not true and official information will be announced after the 4^th or the 5^th prospecting, Duma daily quotes Bulgaria’s Deputy Premier for EU Funds and Economic Policies Tomislav Donchev. Deputy Premier Donchev made that comment with relation to the interview of Associate Professor Shteruy Lyomov for the Bulgarian National Radio, where Mr Lyomov said that the results of the first prospecting were perhaps not so encouraging and that is why they had not been made public yet. If you ask me whether I am informed about the results of the drilling-the answer is yes. If you ask me whether I would announce them right now- the answer is no, Deputy Premier Donchev further said.