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..
The migrant accommodation centers with the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior were working at 34% beyond their capacity at the end of October, data of the Interior Ministry shows. The migrant centers of the State Agency for Refugees in the village of..
Citizens of Bulgaria’s coastal city Varna gathered on Sunday in front of the city cathedral to protest against illegal immigration. Since October this year people from the so-called Civil Initiative have been gathering at different public places to..
Citizens of Bulgaria’s Yambol district are to launch on Saturday evening a street protest against possible accommodation of refugees. The tension escalated several weeks ago, but protests were temporarily delayed due to the Presidential elections in..
Bulgaria’s printed media accentuate on Wednesday on the national referendum issue . The Central Election Commission was accused of counting the votes incorrectly. The Central Election Commission is sabotaging the referendum, Trud daily informs on..
Bulgaria’s Armed Forces are preparing for a long-term mission at the border, Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense Nikolay Nenchev said. Minister Nenchev added that up to 2,000 soldiers can be deployed to the Bulgarian border in several hours only. Overtime..
At a meeting in Budapest, with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov, his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjártó has said that Bulgaria successfully protects the EU outer border, has even made more efforts in this regard than some Schengen..
The Bulgarian border police have detained more than 150 migrants at the Bulgaria-Serbia border as they were trying to leave this country illegally. 117 of the detained persons have regular papers issued by the State Agency for Refugees. In the..
