The European Commission has ended the so-called Cooperation and Verification Mechanism which monitored the processes connected with the rule of law in this country and in Romania. The motives for this decision – that Bulgaria and Romania have..
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has indicated the strengthening of the Bulgarian-Turkish border as a priority in operational measures against illegal migration . After the end of the first day of the meeting of the..
The European Commission has announced the launch of a pilot project with Bulgaria for addressing the migrant challenges and improving border protection. The pilot project foresees the implementation by Bulgaria of targeted tools and practices..
Ambassador Irene Maria Plank about the priorities during her term of office, the migrant crisis and the Istanbul Convention The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Irene Maria Plank handed her credentials in January this year. In her..
Migratory pressure along the borders of Bulgaria has gone up by over 40% since the beginning of the year , as compared to the same period of 2022, the annual analysis by the Border Police Directorate-General shows, BNR’s Nikolay Hristov reports...
A quarter of Bulgarians would go to live in another country if they had the necessary documents, according to a Gallup International study conducted in 57 countries. 67% of Bulgarians say that they would stay in their homeland..
Fleeing war, violence and poverty, unaccompanied children often join migrant caravans and cross borders in search of a happier destiny in someone's distant land. If luck is with them, they are successfully integrated and given a future in a..
Greece is taking the initiative for Bulgaria and Romania’s faster accession to the Schengen area. This was made clear after a meeting between Interior Minister in the caretaker cabinet Ivan Demerdzhiev and Greece’s Minister of Migration and Asylum..
Eleven Bulgarian regions are the largest "donors" of labour to foreign countries . More than 5% of the population of Vidin, Vratsa, Gabrovo, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Razgrad, Sliven, Smolyan, Targovishte, Haskovo has gone to work outside Bulgaria..
More than 314,000 Bulgarians who stayed abroad in the period 1980-2021 for more than one year have returned to Bulgaria . This is shown by NSI data from the census in 2021. The top 10 countries to which Bulgarians migrated are Great Britain,..
