In a letter to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has expressed readiness of the Commission to examine the long-term needs of Bulgaria for effective guarding of the external borders of the EU and the..
EC spokesperson Natasha Bertaud has said that out of requested by Bulgaria 160 million euros to combat illegal migration, 101 million have already been transferred, while the approval of 50 million more was pending. 82 million of the money will be used..
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..
During a mini-summit on migrant issues that was held in Vienna, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov called for closing the external EU borders and for creating security zones in third countries, for example in Libya. We should close the borders and..
Cooperation in combating illegal migration and trafficking was the topic of discussion between Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova and Austrian counterpart Wolfgang Sobotka. The Austrian minister supported the position of Bulgaria that..
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..
Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova and Greek counterpart Nikolaos Kotzias have discussed migration processes and security issues during a working meeting in Sofia. The two ministers discussed the establishment of joint patrols to counter..
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..
The Bulgarian Ministry of Interior has reported an increase in refugee flows for a second consecutive week. For the past seven days more than 500 people have been detained, as more than 120 have been detained in an attempt to enter the country. Since the..
