56 Bulgarian and Ukrainian citizens have arrived in Bulgaria. They entered the country at 8 AM this morning, crossing the border check point with Romania at Durankulak. The two buses, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, started out from..
“The Western world has merely left Ukraine on its own”, Krasimir Pankovski from the Union of Ukrainian Organisations in Bulgaria said for the BNR. In his words, the masks are off and it is clear who the aggressor is. “Now there is no safe place in..
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Tourism is ready to discuss possibilities to accommodate Ukrainian citizens. The state will pay the accommodation costs, this country’s Minister of Tourism Hristo Prodanov explained in an interview for the BNR. “I have..
“It is absolutely inadmissible, in the 21 st century in Europe, to have missiles flying and strikes against a sovereign state. There is no direct military threat to the security of Bulgaria. But there are a number of risks,” said President Rumen..
In August 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s notorious phrase “We will manage!” opened the doors to Europe for a massive stream of refugees fleeing from the war in Syria. Thousands of economic migrants from Asia and Africa also headed towards..
During a police operation in Pomorie last night, the police detained two men with a criminal record, aged 44 and 47, for harbouring refugees. In the course of three days the two men concealed 9 refugees without identity documents, purporting..
In the last two days, Bulgaria's Border Police has stopped more than 480 migrants from crossing the Bulgarian border illegally. According to the ministry, 268 of them tried to cross the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the rest - the Bulgarian-Greek border...
There has been an increase in unaccompanied minors in refugee centres along the Bulgarian border, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan. In an interview with BNR, the chairman of the State Agency for Refugees Petya Parvanova pointed out that Bulgaria was a..
About a hundred people from the Afghan community in Bulgaria joined a march in Sofia in support of the Afghan people against Taliban rule and in order to show sympathy for Afghan refugees across the world.
Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Svetlan Stoev has discussed the latest events in Afghanistan at an extraordinary video-conference meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of NATO Members. Minister Stoev has expressed his gratitude..
