Bulgaria has officially requested from the European Commission a financial aid to the tune of EUR 160 million to deal with the migration pressure. The document was prepared by the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior and consists of five projects- about the renovation of the technical equipment for border control, about the expansion of the capabilities for integrated surveillance, about modernization of the communication and information systems. The fifth project aims at boosting the capacity of the asylum centers. The EU financing is expected to be provided under the Internal Security Fund and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. The European Commission is to assess Bulgaria’s request in short terms.
For now, we do not envisage and do not propose to the Bulgarian parliament to return the conscription military service, Caretaker Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov told BNR. He expressed the hope that with the increase in the salaries of the military..
"What the president is right about is that everybody has to position themselves." Thus, the leader of GERB Boyko Borisov responded to the expectations of President Rumen Radev that the parties position themselves and take adequate actions on a..
MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk, who sided with the honorary chairman of MRF Ahmed Dogan, questioned the party membership of Delyan Peevski, the leader of the other wing. "We all knew that Mr. Peevski over the years was the civilian quota of the MRF...
From today until September 15, Sofia's Vitosha boulevard and the park in front of the National Palace of Culture are transformed into a huge open-air..
Over a hundred participants in the voluntary teams of the Bulgarian Red Cross for disaster and crisis action, as well as representatives of the..
The two wings of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, which intend to participate in the early parliamentary elections on October 27 in coalitions,..
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