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Bulgaria granted asylum to 760 people in 2018, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said on April 25. Of the people to whom Bulgaria granted protection, the three largest groups were […]
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ office in Bulgaria has welcomed the government’s efforts to improve the integration of refugees through the adoption of a new ordinance, while pointing to […]
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, Yemen and Syria, to a sum […]
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 […]
The UN refugee agency reports more than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea this year, with 80 per cent of this record number landing on small, […]
