Police patrols along the Sofia-Varna road on the territory of the region of Lovech will be doubled on weekends and on holidays after the three severe road accidents that took place there since Friday, claiming the lives of 11 and injuring 26, 4 of them..
On October 26 – 27 th Sofia hosted the annual EU–Western Balkans justice and home affairs ministerial meeting. The event came as part of the Estonian EU presidency and representatives of Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,..
Seven times less migrants have been detained in 2017 in their attempt to cross illegally the Bulgaria-Turkey border as compared to 2016, Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Valentin Radev announced. According to Minister Radev, this was mainly due to the..
Migration pressure on Bulgaria decreased by 70% in the recent months as a result of the efforts of the Bulgarian authorities, the financial assistance provided by the EU and the border fence constructed at the Bulgaria-Turkey border, Bulgaria’s..
People from two villages were evacuated, and the mayors of the municipalities of Kresna and Simitli declared a state of emergency in three populated areas after a raging fire destroyed over 700 hectares of mixed forests in Kresna Gorge within hours..
The European Union Ministers of Interior are holding an informal meeting in the Estonian capital Tallinn. This meeting is the first large event in Estonia since that country took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union on July..
The European Commission is ready to give more time to Bulgaria to absorb the EUR 160 million allotted to that country for protection of its state borders, a letter of EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris..
Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Valentin Radev met in Sofia with the Hessian Minister of Interior and Sports Peter Beuth and with Saxony’s Minister of Interior Markus Ulbig. Ministers Radev, Beuth and Ulbig assessed highly the bilateral relations..
“The state of the facilities, of the surveillance systems, as well as of the individual surveillance devices is satisfactory. They provide reliable protection against migration flows,” said Interior Minister Valentin Radev in parliament. In his..
