Refugee crisis: Frontex to send 100 officers to Bulgaria
The European border agency Frontex will provide 100 officers, who are supposed to help Bulgaria control its borders with Turkey
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Bulgarian Border Police top officers quit after migrant transport contract given to ‘people-trafficker’
Bulgarian Border Police chief Antonio Angelov and senior commissioner Yotko Andreev resigned on August 15 after Prime Minister Boiko Borissov
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Bulgaria to set up checkpoints inside country against illegal migration
Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry will set up checkpoints inside the country to counter trafficking of people who have entered the country
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Bulgarian PM orders Border Police chiefs fired over migrant transport contract
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has ordered the dismissal of the top leadership of the Border Police after a contract
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Citing ‘backroom deals’, Ombudsman pulls out of BSP presidential candidate race
Bulgarian Ombudsman Maya Manolova has written a letter to Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) structures that nominated her to be the
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Bulgaria foils further attempts at illegally crossing its borders with Serbia, Turkey
Over the past day, Bulgarian Border Police detained 87 foreign nationals who had attempted to cross the Bulgarian-Serbian border illegally,
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Controversy continues over Bulgaria’s deportation of Büyük to Turkey
Controversy is continuing over Bulgaria’s expulsion to Turkey of Turkish business person Abdullah Büyük, with his lawyers saying that there
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UN rights chief sees ‘worrying signs’ in Bulgaria’s detentions of migrants
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has expressed serious concern that virtually all people entering
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Bulgaria records 0.7% economic growth in Q2 2016 – flash estimate
Bulgaria’s economy posted 0.7 per cent growth in the second quarter of the year, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said
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