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Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has issued the latest in a series of travel advisories because of the migrant crisis in Europe, this time cautioning those travelling in Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia, […]
Bulgaria could cope with a quota of 1200 refugees, and in this way the country would show solidarity and understanding of the issue, Prime Minister Bo ...
Swastikas and ethnic hate speech graffiti were cleaned off the walls of schools in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on September 18 as part of the ...
There were 7240 first-time asylum applications in Bulgaria between the beginning of January and the end of June 2015, according to figures released on ...
During the second quarter of 2015 (from April to June 2015), 213 200 first time asylum seekers applied for protection in the European Union (EU), up by 15 per cent […]
Germany’s foreign minister says if some European Union members continue to be reluctant to agree to a quota system for accepting refugees, they may have to be overruled by the […]
European Council President Donald Tusk has convened a special meeting of the European Council on September 23 to discuss the migrant crisis. The meeting follows an earlier, failed attempt to […]
A total of 15 people, including two Bulgarian town police chiefs and other police officers, are in custody following an investigation of several months that exposed allegations of everything from […]
Poland’s opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) enjoys voter support at 36 per cent, followed by ruling party Civic Platform (PO) with 22 per cent, according to a poll by […]
Bulgaria heads into a long weekend from September 19 to 22, with the weather in major cities promising warm and sunny days but with a cooler and generally rainier end […]
