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Bulgaria Police Arrest 130 in Special Operation
A special operation in Bulgaria's capital Sofia resulted in the detention of 130 people, most of whom illegally crossed into Bulgaria, the Interior Ministry's Chief Secretary has said.
Several people were released after the Wednesday evening operation after it was confirmed they had been granted refugee status, Georgi Kostov told private national bTV station in a Thursday interview.
Bulgaria's Interior Ministry to Focus on Illegal Migration
Bulgaria is handling well the flow of legal migrants arriving in the country, according to Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova.
"We manage to deal with the migration problem, registering all those who enter legally, taking their fingerprints," Bachvarova told parliament on Wednesday.
Austrian Policemen Investigating Death of Migrants in Truck to Arrive in Bulgaria
Representatives of the Austrian police investigating the death of the 71 migrants, who were found in an abandoned truck in the state of Burgenland last week, are expected to arrive in Bulgaria on Wednesday.
The number of people detained for the suspected trafficking of the migrants increased to seven on Tuesday after two new arrests.
Number of People Detained Over Truck with Dead Migrants in Austria Rises to Seven
The number of people detained over the suspected trafficking of the 71 migrants, who were found dead in an abandoned truck in Austria last week, has risen to seven.
The latest arrests were that of a man in Bulgaria and another one in Hungary.
Bulgarian Police Detain Man over Austria Migrant Deaths
One person has been arrested in Bulgaria over last week's incident in which the bodies of 71 migrants were found in a truck near the Austria-Hungary border, investigative sources have told the Bulgarian National Radio.
Wirtschaftsblatt: Bulgaria's Self-Inflicted Problems
Bulgaria is not developing particularly well at the moment, and its problems are being overshadowed in the media by Central and Southeastern Europe's migrant crisis, Austrian daily Das Wirtschaftsblatt reads.
No 'Bulgarian Roots' of Austrian Smuggling Ring, IntMin Says
Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova has ruled out that the organized criminal gang smuggling migrants into Austria could be based in Bulgaria.
'Bulgaria Missed a Brilliant Foreign Policy Opportunity'
Bulgaria should have called a regional summit to tackle the migrant crisis, instead of mobilizing the army to guard its borders, a recent analysis reads on the EUInside.
It says the former option would have helped see what is most needed by countries affected by the influx of migrants such as Serbia, Macedonia and Greece.
Bulgaria Fin Min Expects 0.7% Budget Surplus as of End-August
Bulgaria's central government budget is expected to show a surplus of BGN 601M equivalent to 0.7% of the projected 2015 GDP as of August 31, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
The expected figure is improvement on end-August 2014, when the central government budget showed a deficit of BGN 1.28B, or 1.6% of GDP, the Finance Ministry said in a monthly budget forecast.
Bulgaria Reports 0.9% Budget Surplus as of End-July
Bulgaria's central government budget showed a surplus of BGN 789M equivalent to 0.9% of the projected 2015 GDP at the end of July, the Finance Ministry announced on Monday.
This compared with a budget gap of BGN 1.15B, or 1.4% of GDP at the end of July 2014.
Bulgaria Plans to Initiate EU Discussion to Make Anti-IS Strategy More Efficient
Bulgaria plans to initiate a discussion within the EU on the need to add new elements to the bloc's strategy for combatting the Islamic State (IS) group, the country's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has said.
Workers from Bulgaria, Romania Arriving in Britain Nearly Double in Year to March
Workers from Romania and Bulgaria have led a jump in European migration to Britain, the Daily Mail reported in its online edition.
"Some 53,000 people from the two countries arrived in the year to March - nearly double the 28,000 in the previous 12 months," according to dailymail.co.uk.
Bulgarian PM Calls on World Leaders to Solve Refugee Crisis
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov called on world leaders to sit together and come up with a solution to the refugee crisis.
Borisov insisted that urgent measures should be taken to address the source of the refugee wave, namely the destabilised states in Africa and the Arab world.
According to him, this was not in the capacity of Bulgaria to deal with.
Authorities Detain Fourth Bulgarian over Dead Migrants Found in Truck in Austria
Hungarian police detained a fourth Bulgarian suspected in the trafficking of the 71 migrants, who were found dead in an abandoned truck on an Austrian motorway near the border with Hungary on Thursday.
This is the fifth arrest carried out by Hungarian authorities after three Bulgarians and an Afghan citizen had been arrested earlier on Friday.
Human Smuggling in Bulgaria Is Punishable by Ridiculous Fines - Foreign Minister
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has argued that Bulgarian legislation must be amended so as to include harsh penalties for human smuggling instead of the current fine of BGN 1000 - 8000.
In a Saturday interview for Nova TV, Mitov made clear that Penal Code amendments envisaging much harsher penalties for human smuggling had passed first reading in Parliament on Friday.