Recent days have seen a slight increase in migration pressure, Deputy PM and Interior Minister Rumiana Bachvarova told the press. She pointed out that a group of 30 refugees was intercepted yesterday near the Black Sea town of Primorsko. In..
The Interior Ministry reports that last night three people were injured in a mass fighting between refugees in Sofia. The scandal arose between two groups of migrants - from Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bulgarian National Radio informs. The most likely..
Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Rumiana Bachvarova denied affirmations of the German intelligence, quoted in German media, about weaknesses regarding control over human traffickers along the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Earlier, German media announced..
The Bulgarian member of the European Parliament and of the European Popular Party through the Bulgarian ruling party Gerb Emil Radev has said that Turkey’s threat to break the agreement with EU and to open the borders to Bulgaria and Europe for..
Bulgaria can’t keep migrants on its territory against their will, Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov said at the Campaign Managers Meeting of the European People’s Party in Sofia. Sofia agreed to receive 1,200 people under the agreement for relocation..
A video appeared in YouTube during the week that raised a public outcry. The video showed tough-looking young Bulgarians, not in uniform, yelling at three Afghan nationals prostrate on the ground in broken English: Go back to Turkey, now!, after..
“The big challenge is that our border is very long and does not tally with the number of people we have,” said Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova on the sidelines of the session of the Bulgarian National Assembly. In her words we must be..
Trafficking of migrants is a well-organized provocation of law and order in our countries, Bulgarian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Rumiana Bachvarova has said during her talks with the Chief Public Prosecutor at the Supreme Courtof Turkey Mehmet..
A joint exercise of the Bulgarian Border Police and the Navy related to acting in a situation of increased migratory pressure at sea has taken place in the bay of Burgas. The Bulgarian "Drazki" frigate, helicopters, as well as motor boats took part in the..
Greece will not be building a migrant accommodation center near the Bulgarian border, nor there will be a refugee center in the region of Drama. This is what Nikos Toskas, Greek Alternate Minister for Citizen Protection told Bulgarian Interior Minister..
