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Bulgaria’s Cabinet agreed on May 15 to grant 293 375 leva (about 150 000 euro) in aid to assistant in dealing with the humanitarian crises in Syria and Yemen, the […]
Bulgaria granted asylum to 760 people in 2018, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said on April 25. Of the people to whom Bulgaria granted prot ...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ office in Bulgaria has welcomed the government’s efforts to improve the integration of refugees thr ...
At what is likely to be one of its last few meetings, Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet has approved the provision of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan ...
With two weeks to go to Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections, the past few days have seen matters becoming quite more heated – on occasion, between people who […]
Father Paolo Cortese, the Roman Catholic priest recalled from Bulgaria after getting death threats for sheltering a Syrian refugee family, has challenged Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit and President […]
A group of Bulgarians from a civil society pressure group held a protest outside the Presidency in Sofia on March 12 in solidarity with Father Paolo Cortese, the Roman Catholic […]
In a case similar to the one in the Bulgarian town of Elin Pelin some weeks ago, there is a dispute in the northern town of Belene over a Syrian […]
The European Commission (EC) said on July 28 that it was bringing to more than two billion euro the total amount granted to the facility for refugees in Turkey, to […]
Europe in 2015 faced its most severe migration crisis in centuries as an estimated one million people – mostly Muslims – fled war in Syria and poverty in other countries […]
