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Yet even in the midst of the pandemic, the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned of a crisis of mass migration — despite the fact that the country's frontiers have largely been sealed to migrants and refugees since 2016.

Parliamentary Defence Committee approves BGN 1.6 B for modernization and filling vacancies at the Bulgarian army.

However, lawmakers in the Committee are still not sure that these funds will be enough to achieve their intentions, according to Bulgarian National Radio.

"There is no further evidence that Romania was complicit in the CIA's covert detention programme. We stand by the conclusion of the parliamentary inquiries, which uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing. And no new evidence has emerged in the meantime," MP Marius Obreja, the head of the Parliamentary Defence Committee, said on Saturday.