The Bulgarian government has instructed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Rumyana Bachvarova, to establish the necessary organization for spending the additional 160 million euro of EU financing, provided for curbing migratory pressure at..
Austria will not send military personnel to Bulgaria and Serbia to guard the borders from migrants. That is what Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil has said. The help will not be provided because of existing legal obstacles. Speaking about..
Our major goal is migrants to stay away from Bulgarian borders, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told young participants in the Summer University of the GERB party. Borissov spoke for over an hour to members of the youth organization of GERB and made them..
Curfew has been introduced in the refugee camp in the Bulgarian town of Harmanli. The measure was imposed after a mass fight erupted on Sunday evening with the participation of nearly 800 migrants. An investigation to identify those responsible for the..
The refugee center in the town of Harmanli, Southern Bulgaria, will be expanded thanks to EU funding. The new premises would accommodate 400 people. This way the center will be able to accommodate a total of 3000 refugees. In recent weeks, the number..
The interior ministry reports that 650 new migrants have been found on Bulgarian territory over the past week. Their overall number since the start of the year now comes to 12,000 and the asylum centers will be filled in to the top in case the migrant..
According to the State Agency for Refugees, a total of 357 refugees have been returned to Bulgaria under the Dublin Agreement since the beginning of the year. According to the agreement, refugees are returned to countries where they were first..
Frontex, the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the EU will strengthen control at Bulgaria's borders with Turkey and Serbia. The decision was taken at the request of Bulgarian authorities. The agency..
There will be regular police patrols and permanent presence of the gendarmerie and municipal police in places in Sofia, where refugees usually gather and where incidents take place, it was reported. This is what Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova and..
The number of illegal crossings through the Turkish-Bulgarian border has decreased by 47 percent, the press center of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry has reported. This was due to special police operations, as well as due to the construction of..
