Bulgaria’s capital Sofia hosts a media forum under the motto When Society Met Refugees. The forum is held on occasion of the World Refugee Day and was organized by the Bulgarian Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Over 65..
Under an ordinance of the Ministry of Education children of refugees will be able to enroll in Bulgarian schools after a special card is filled in about their education level. The card is part of the minutes about an interview that has been held...
In a statement concerning the decision by the caretaker government to repeal the ordinance on the permanent settlement of refugees in Bulgarian municipalities, President Rumen Radev states, that the integration of foreign nationals is an issue that is..
Sega newspaper carries a front page headline that reads: “Bulgaria starts to take in refugees from Turkey,” under a government decision, made on Wednesday that has not been made public. The caretaker cabinet cites the agreement signed between the..
The Bulgarian refugee centers have filled their maximum capacity, the State Agency for Refugees announced. A total of 5,569 foreign nationals were accommodated at the migrant centers. The State Agency for Refugees took measures aimed at providing..
The Bulgarian State Agency for Refugees has announced that it would build bungalows to accommodate some 400 refugees more in the refugee center in Harmanli, Southern Bulgaria. It is expected that in the coming days all currently available accommodation..
Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic does not support the construction of border fences along the borders with Bulgaria and Macedonia to stop migrants arriving from those neighboring countries. In the past few days Serbia’s Minister of Internal..
The biggest concern of over 85% of the Bulgarian citizens is about terrorist threats, radical Islam and refugee wave, a public opinion survey made by Trend research center before the terrorist attack in Nice (France) and the coup attempt in Turkey,..
The Bulgarian border authorities sent a freight train back to Greece last Saturday amid suspicions it was transporting migrants onboard, the BNR reporter Nikolay Hristov informs. The train was sent back to Greece after a regular inspection at a railway..
On June 20 we mark the World Day of Refugees. On this occasion the UN Supreme Commissariat for refugees published a report, according to which in 2015 the number of refugees across the globe has for the first time in history gone above the..
