Emma Hopkins

"I do not think we will introduce visas for our 27 EU friends after Brexit." This was announced by Emma Hopkins, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bulgaria.

Between 10-15% of the minors and juveniles In Bulgaria fall victims to trafficking in human beings. We believe that children are extremely vulnerable, we work actively with schools. We have an academy for volunteers trying to protect them from this crime.

Theresa May and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson do not have a fundamentally different stance on Brexit. We want to remain friends with the European Union. This is what British Ambassador Emma Hopkins told BNT.

"Britain does not want double standards, and we want the same rules for everyone after Brexit," the UK Ambassador to Bulgaria, Emma Hopkins told BNT morning programme "the Day Begins" on 27th of June.

British ambassador to Bulgaria Emma Hopkins stated, in an interview for bTV, quoted by BNR, that Great Britain would continue to provide safe haven to foreign nationals living there but that the rules for Bulgarians applying for jobs will change.

"I am leaving Bulgaria in two weeks as I just got a new job in the UK. But what will happen to me if Britain decide to leave the EU?," a young Bulgarian asked the British ambassador to Bulgaria, Emma Hopkins, at a debate on the future of the UK in the EU in Sofia on Monday.

A forum on combating human trafficking is taking place in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia on Tuesday.

The meeting entitled "Preparation of a strategy on countering human trafficking" began at 9:30 EET in the Musala hall of Hilton hotel.

UK Ambassador to Bulgaria Emma Hopkins said on Tuesday the EU needs to jointly manage common borders and apply stricter control as part of a "new Schengen stage".

In an interview with private bTV station, Hopkins opined Europe was facing an unprecedented threat requiring a more efficient control of the bloc's external borders.

?he General Assembly of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) has elected four members of the Management Board at an annual meeting.

Petar Ivanov, Microsoft General Manager for Bulgaria and Macedonia, and Boryana Manolova, CEO of Siemens Bulgaria, are the new members of the BBLF Management Board.

The new British Ambassador to Sofia Emma Hopkins demonstrated her knowledge of the Bulgarian language in a video address, which was published on the Facebook page of the embassy on Monday.

Mrs Hopkins shared that she was honoured to be the new British Ambassador to Sofia and together with her family, they were happy to have Bulgaria as their new home.