The European Commission has announced the launch of a pilot project with Bulgaria for addressing the migrant challenges and improving border protection. The pilot project foresees the implementation by Bulgaria of targeted tools and practices..
Ambassador Irene Maria Plank about the priorities during her term of office, the migrant crisis and the Istanbul Convention The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Irene Maria Plank handed her credentials in January this year. In her..
Migratory pressure along the borders of Bulgaria has gone up by over 40% since the beginning of the year , as compared to the same period of 2022, the annual analysis by the Border Police Directorate-General shows, BNR’s Nikolay Hristov reports...
A quarter of Bulgarians would go to live in another country if they had the necessary documents, according to a Gallup International study conducted in 57 countries. 67% of Bulgarians say that they would stay in their homeland..
Fleeing war, violence and poverty, unaccompanied children often join migrant caravans and cross borders in search of a happier destiny in someone's distant land. If luck is with them, they are successfully integrated and given a future in a..
Greece is taking the initiative for Bulgaria and Romania’s faster accession to the Schengen area. This was made clear after a meeting between Interior Minister in the caretaker cabinet Ivan Demerdzhiev and Greece’s Minister of Migration and Asylum..
Eleven Bulgarian regions are the largest "donors" of labour to foreign countries . More than 5% of the population of Vidin, Vratsa, Gabrovo, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Razgrad, Sliven, Smolyan, Targovishte, Haskovo has gone to work outside Bulgaria..
More than 314,000 Bulgarians who stayed abroad in the period 1980-2021 for more than one year have returned to Bulgaria . This is shown by NSI data from the census in 2021. The top 10 countries to which Bulgarians migrated are Great Britain,..
The population of Bulgaria was 6, 519,789 as of September 7, 2021. There are 3, 383, 527 women (51.9% of the population) and 3,136,262 men (48.1% of the population). There are 927 men per 1,000 women, the National Statistical Institute said...
The parliamentary committee for control over the security services has started an investigation into the situation related to migrant pressure on Bulgaria’s southern border. The reason for the inspection was information from the Ministry of..
