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Bulgaria has strengthened its border patrols and is ready to implement a crisis management plan, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov told the National Assembly on April 5, amid a developing situation […]
The number of asylum applications in European Union countries in 2018 was 10 per cent lower than in 2017, dropping for the third year in a row and rea ...
In 2018, the number of illegal border-crossings at Europe’s external borders fell by a quarter compared with 2017 to an estimated 150 000, the lowe ...
Testimonies gathered by Save the Children, and its partner in Serbia, found more than 1350 cases of children being pushed back across European Union b ...
A total of 2503 migrants and refugees have arrived in Bulgaria so far this year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), citing figures as at December 19. The […]
The European Commission said on December 20 that this week it had made available an additional 305 million euro in emergency assistance to support migration and border management in Greece, […]
There were a total of 485 asylum seekers in Bulgaria in October 2018, up from 315 in October 2017, according to figures released on December 20 by EU statistics agency […]
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says thousands of migrants stuck near the Bosnian-Croatian border face life-threatening conditions as cold weather sets in. More than 23 […]
Bulgaria is to provide 19 559 leva (about 10 000 euro) as a voluntary contribution to the Council of Europe Development Bank’s fund for migrants and refugees, a government statement […]
Part of the fence built by Bulgaria at the border with Turkey to stem illegal migration has fallen for a second time, brought down by heavy rain in the Malko […]
