Eighty-seven foreign nationals have been detained over the past 24 hours as they tried to cross illegally the Bulgarian-Serbian border, Border Police General Directorate said. About 8 pm last night a border policeman from the town of Tran found 54 persons without ID documents in the area of the village of Bankya who declared their nationalities as Afghan, Pakistani and Iraqi. Forty one of them who have been registered at the State Agency for Refugees have been taken away from the border zone. The rest thirteen persons have been taken to the center for temporary accommodation in Lubimets. Border police from Belogradchik have detained sixteen Iraqis not far from the Bulgaria-Serbia border, and their colleagues from Kalotina – seventeen Afghans.
With various events throughout the country Bulgarians are marking 152 years after the death of the Apostle of Bulgarian Freedom Vasil Levski. Today, at 6:00 p.m. a memorial ceremony in front of the monument to the Apostle of Freedom in Sofia takes..
BNB Governor Dimitar Radev will sign the request for an extraordinary convergence report on the fulfillment of the criteria for eurozone membership. This is clear from his response in an interview with BTA, in which Radev announced that the Central..
A serious train crash involving a train owned by the Bulgarian company PIMK has occurred near Craiova, Romania. According to initial information, the train conductor of the private Bulgarian company, who is a Romanian citizen, died in the accident...
The Vazrazhdane parliamentary party is organizing a protest on February 22 in front of the Bulgarian National Bank against Bulgaria's entry into the..
A serious train crash involving a train owned by the Bulgarian company PIMK has occurred near Craiova, Romania. According to initial information, the..
The agriculture sector in Bulgaria maintains its stability, providing employment to 6% of the population and forming about 4% of the country's GDP. This..
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