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The European Commission has expanded on its concept of “controlled centres” for the processing of migrants disembarked in the EU, including paying 6000 euro per person to EU countries hosting […]
Refugee centres in Bulgaria are almost empty and there has been a significant decline in applications for protection, Bulgarian National Television said on July 21. The figures, from the State […]
To date, Bulgaria is the only country in the European Union that has coped with migrants and has even been given as an example, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said in […]
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 with the bloc’s management of […]
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 that as a front-line country, […]
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 several EU countries stand when it comes to […]
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 […]
