In a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has discussed the complicated and difficult situation related to the ongoing migrant crisis. Saying that Bulgaria needed to use additional number..
Migration pressure has marked a 30-percent decline, Secretary General of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry Georgi Kostov has announced. A total of 7009 persons who entered the country illegally have been detained for the first six months of the year. Last..
A special police operation has been taking place at the Kulata checkpoint on the border with Greece and the Kalotina checkpoint on the border with Serbia, the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior said. Checks target mostly heavy trucks and aim at combating..
Bulgarian Minister of Interior Rumyana Bachvarova said in parliament that current analyses show possible new routes for migrants trying to reach western Europe do not go through Bulgaria. Asked about about a possible new route across the Black Sea,..
Over 1,000 citizens of the town of Kresna in southwestern Bulgaria protested against the possible establishment of a refugee camp in their municipality. The district governor of Blagoevgrad, Biser Mihaylov, has admitted that because of expectations of a..
Following the closing of the Balkan route for migrants and the agreement reached between the European Union and Turkey, there was a danger of 1.1 million people trying to cross the Bulgarian border, Austrian Minister of the Interior Johanna Mikl-Leitner..
In a telephone conversation Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov have agreed tor joint Bulgarian-Macedonian border-security operations by air and land to be carried out in the coming days. PM Borissov..
Preparations have started for a military exercise near the southern Bulgarian borders, the Ministry of Defense reported and added this was in relation to the current refugee crisis in Greece. The actual exercise starts on March 5 and it is to be held in..
During a refugee crisis conference, organized in Brussels by Bulgarian socialists in the European Parliament, ambassadors of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia in the EU called for reducing migration flow from Turkey to Greece. Permanent..
After on Sunday Bulgarian truck drivers lifted the counter blockade of the Bulgarian-Greek border, on Monday the Kulata - Promachon border checkpoint was once again blocked by protesting Greek farmers. No trucks traveling from Greece to Bulgaria are..
