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Bulgaria releases state reserves to aid refugees

October 7, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Bulgaria’s Cabinet has agreed to donate state reserves and wartime stocks to the Interior Ministry and State Agency for Refugees

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria detains illegal migrants in Bourgas, Sofia

October 6, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, Sofia, Syrian refugees

Police in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Bourgas detained two groups of illegal migrants in the city, the Interior

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Europe 

UNHCR: Global displacement crisis exacerbated by financial woes

October 6, 2015October 7, 2015 VOANews Syrian refugees

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, warns the number of people being displaced worldwide by conflict and persecution

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Europe 

Erdogan in Brussels with migration on the table with the EU

October 5, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees, Turkey

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is on an official visit in Brussels to meet with the presidents of all the EU

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: Air strikes in Syria will cause new wave of refugees

October 2, 2015October 6, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Syrian refugees

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov expects the recent airstrikes in Syria to cause a new wave of refugees. Borissov, speaking

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Europe 

Europe’s migrant crisis: Roundup, October 2

October 2, 2015October 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic, Greece, Macedonia, Syrian refugees, Turkey

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry, State Agency for National Security and prosecutors detained 46 alleged people-traffickers and 501 migrants who had entered

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Europe 

Tusk: Accusing Europe of poor treatment of asylum-seekers ‘pure hypocrisy’

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Suggesting that Europe is an example of poor treatment or indifference towards asylum-seekers is sheer hypocrisy, European Council President Donald

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Europe 

Europe’s migrant crisis: More than 520 000 arrivals in Europe by sea in 2015 so far – IOM

September 29, 2015September 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on September 29 that it estimates that about 522 000 migrants and refugees

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Bulgaria 

63% of Bulgarians see refugee influx as danger to the country – poll

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Sixty-three per cent of Bulgarians see the refugee influx as a danger to the country, according to a poll by

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