Construction has begun of a fence around the transit refugee center in Pastrogor, Southeastern Bulgaria, the Bulgarian National Radio correspondent in Haskovo has reported. The project will cost 1.1 million euro, of it 90% in gratuitous aid from the..
Since the beginning of 2017, the total of 941 migrants have been seized at Bulgaria’s border with Serbia while trying to leave the country illegally and then continue their journey to Central and Western Europe, BGNES reports referring to Interior..
Between January 1 and February 2, 2017, the number of illegal migrants taken out of Bulgaria exceeded the number of those who entered the country, Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior reported. A total of 230 illegally-residing migrants were taken out of..
The number of migrants seeking protection in Bulgaria in December 2016 decreased by one-half as compared to the previous month to 815 people, data of the State Agency for Refugees shows. People from seventeen countries, as well as stateless migrants..
Romania’s border police detained 48 Iraqi nationals onboard a TIR truck with Bulgarian registration plates. The truck was transporting Bulgarian chocolate items to Hungary. Police in the city of Giurgiu informed that there were 22 men, 9 women and 17..
Recently a controversial statement of Bulgaria's outgoing Minister of Interior regarding possible terrorist attack threat over Bulgaria, due to the riot at the migrant center in Harmanli, raised the question whether that country was at risk of..
140 Afghan refugees have been deported from Bulgaria, the embassy of Afghanistan is currently processing the readmission papers of another 200, PM Boyko Borissov told the outgoing ministers of his cabinet today. He added that the migrant pressure..
The court in the village of General Toshevo, Northeastern Bulgaria, decided to keep into custody 25 illegal migrants from Iraq - 15 women and 10 men, at the request of the District Prosecutor's Office. 11 children had also been part of the group before..
Bulgaria’s printed media focus on Thursday on GERB’s refusal to support possible cabinet headed by the Patriotic Front or the Reformist Bloc within the current National Assembly. Following an extraordinary sitting of GERB’s parliamentary group on..
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees disapproved of the appeals for large-scale expulsion of migrants from Bulgaria. The UNHCR announced on its web page that it is “concerned about calls for expulsion following tensions at overcrowded and substandard..
