A border police officer was shot dead while patrolling the border with Turkey in the region of Golyam Dervent village in the vicinity of the Lesovo- Hamzabeyli border checkpoint. The incident took place at around 8.35 on Monday night. The..
The Bulgarian authorities report increased migrant pressure towards Bulgaria. Since the beginning of the year, Border Police officers have detained 1,686 illegal crossings of the border and prevented over 110,000 attempts by immigrants to enter the..
Over the increased migratory pressure, a partial state of emergency is being introduced in parts of the regions of Burgas, Haskovo and Yambol, caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said in Malko Turnovo. This will simplify the procedures for..
About 1,000 migrants are detained in Bulgaria every day, mainly coming from Afghanistan and Syria , Deputy Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Stanimir Stanev told Nova TV. According to him, they are extremely mobile and well..
Long queues, chaos and tension reign at the border crossing "Malko Tarnovo - Dereköy" on the Turkish side of the border. Listeners of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reported that crossing the checkpoint could take between 5 and 8 hours...
"The border between Bulgaria and Turkey is extremely easy to cross. I saw with my own eyes how one can cross it with a ladder". This was what caretaker Minister of the Interior Ivan Demerdzhiev has told bTV when he spoke about..
After the incident from early this morning when a bus with migrants ploughed into a police car, killing two police officers in Burgas , border security is going to be enhanced. Talking to Nova TV, caretaker Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov..
Increased traffic on Bulgaria's border with Turkey and Romania, about 20% a year, has forced the Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Transport to introduce a plan to prevent the accumulation of trucks on the country's northern border in Ruse and..
The queue of trucks waiting to cross Danube Bridge 2 near Vidin - Kalafat already exceeds 10 kilometers of length, BTA reports. Drivers are forced to wait for 16-18 hours. Crossing the bridge itself takes less than 5 minutes, while checks at the border..
At the height of summer, let us take a look at the national road network, though not the thoroughfares leading to the seaside resorts in the environs of Varna but at the region of the town of Vidin. Once the capital of the Tsardom (Kingdom) of..
