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Bulgaria returned a total of 1755 non-EU nationals to their countries in 2017 after issuing them orders to leave, according to figures released by EU statistics agency Eurostat on July […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday downplayed expectations that the EU summit next Thursday will be able to come to a full agreement to deal wi ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, speaking on June 24 ahead of a meeting of EU leaders on migration and asylum, said that Bulgaria had proved t ...
For EU member states, trying to find a common solution to irregular migration has exposed the fault lines that divide the bloc. Here’s where s ...
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is convening an informal working meeting on migration and asylum issues in Brussels on June 24, bringing together leaders from eight European Union countries including […]
The trend of a significant decrease in the number of asylum applications in the EU is continuing in 2018, according to figures published on June 18 by the European Asylum […]
A Hungarian court sentenced four human traffickers to 25 years in prison in connection with the gruesome deaths of 71 migrants found crammed inside a freezer truck in 2015. The four men […]
The European Commission said on June 12 that it was proposing an increase of close to triple in funding for migration and border management, to 39.billion euro in the EU’s […]
The European Commission (EC) announced on June 7 a total of 1.5 million euro in humanitarian aid to address the increasing needs of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants stranded in […]
The Council of Europe’s Special Representative of the Secretary General on migration and refugees, Tomáš Boček, recognises the efforts made by Bulgaria to cope with the challenges of a high […]
