Bulgaria detained 10 406 third-country nationals for illegally entering the country in 2015 – Border Police
Bulgaria took into custody 10 406 non-EU citizens for illegally entering the country in 2015, a figure 73 per cent
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European Council President Tusk heads to Athens for migrant talks
European Council President Donald Tusk visits Greece and Turkey Thursday and Friday to discuss the migrant crisis at its front
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Bulgarian parliamentary committee on Russian, Turkish interference in politics set for stillbirth
The first meeting of Bulgaria’s parliamentary special committee to examine allegations of interference by Turkey and Russia in the country’s
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Turks see Russia as greatest threat, poll finds
With Russian-Turkish tensions mounting, a recent poll finds that the Turkish people see Russia as their greatest threat. The annual
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Bulgarian PM joins controversy over parliamentary committee on interference by Russia and Turkey in politics
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has joined the controversy over Parliament’s decision to set up an ad hoc committee to
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Bulgaria: Russia’s comments on parliamentary probe into domestic political interference are ‘impertinent’
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has described as impertinent comments by Russia describing as “neo-McCarthyism” the Bulgarian National Assembly’s setting up of
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Migrants, refugees crossing Med to Europe at vastly higher rate than in 2015 – IOM
Migrant and refugee arrivals in Greece and Italy have exceeded 120 000 in 2016, having reached the 100 000 milestone
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Europe migrant crisis: Nato deploys vessels in Aegean to assist against people-trafficking networks
Nato vessels have been deployed in the Aegean Sea following a decision by the alliance’s defence ministers to assist in
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Price tag of lengthening Bulgarian – Turkish border fence ‘rises to 100M leva’
Bulgaria’s government has voted an additional 35 million leva for extending the fence along the Turkish border, bringing spending on
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