Bulgaria Opens 3 New Consulates – See Where

At today's meeting, the caretaker government decided to open consulates of Bulgaria in the German city of Dusseldorf and in the French city of Lyon, a new consulate in the Scottish city of Edinburgh, as well as an honorary consulate in Singapore.

The government argues that the opening of a consulate in Dusseldorf and the designation of the province of North Rhine-Westphalia as its consular district will significantly improve the access of Bulgarian citizens to administrative and consular services and will optimize the activities of the consulate of Bulgaria in Frankfurt am Main, whose consular district changed from covering the federal states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland to covering the federal states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, due to extremely high workload.

Bulgarian citizens living on the territory of Germany, according to official data of the German state as of December 31, 2021, amount to 410,890 people, and at the end of 2021, 96,715 Bulgarian citizens were registered in the province of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The caretaker government approved an additional BGN 1,052,600 for the financial provision for the opening of the consulate.

Consulate in Lyon

A consulate of Bulgaria will be opened in France with headquarters in Lyon and a consular district covering the regions of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitania, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Corsica.

The opening of the consular representation is justified by the need to improve the consular service of Bulgarian citizens in France due to their constantly growing number, which is not accompanied by a corresponding increase in the capacity for consular service of the Bulgarian community....