Filip Gunev

"Bulgaria can accept up to 3,000 more refugees in the temporary crisis centres," stated Gunev. They can be placed in the centres in caravans. Thus, the total capacity for the placement of refugees will become 10.000.

According to statistics of the interior ministry, the migrant flow through Bulgaria has decreased by 20 % in the first three months of this year.

This was stated by Deputy Interior Minister Filip Gunev in an interview for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) on Monday.

The blockade at the Kulata checkpoint located on the Bulgarian-Greek border was temporary lifted on Tuesday evening to allow for the passage of the vehicles that have piled up on both sides of the border over the past days.

The queue of trucks on the Bulgarian side of the border has cleared, with passage allowed for all types of vehicles.

According to British Prime Minister David Cameron, Bulgaria should serve as an example of the successful guarding of the EU's external borders.

Cameron said this during the second day of his visit to Bulgaria, which started on Thursday with a meeting of his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov and Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev in Sofia.

The number of people working within the Interior Ministry's system will most probably drop to 47 000 by end-2015, with a further reduction to be implemented in 2016, according to Bulgaria's Deputy Interior Minister Filip Gunev.

Sectoral anti-corruption plans in the spheres of healthcare, energy, agriculture, transport, tax administration and customs authorities, are to be ready by end-October, according to a decision of the National Council for Anti-Corruption Practices announced on Wednesday.

Wednesday's meeting of the Council was closed.

Bulgarian authorities have detained 310 people trying to illegally enter the country between August 13 and August 20, a 50% increase over the previous seven-day period, dnevnik.bg reported on Sunday.

Army helicopters will provide assistance in monitoring Bulgaria's borders to counter a potential surge in the number of migrants trying to enter the country, Deputy Interior Minister Filip Gunev has said.

As of Monday, Bulgaria's Armed Forces will assist police officers patrolling the border with Turkey in a bid to cope with the refugee flows increase.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov appointed a total of fifteen ministers on Tuesday, the government's press office says.

Names have been proposed by ministers themselves, with Borisov having only the final say, under the coalition agreement he struck as leader of conservative GERB with the Reformist Bloc (RB) last week.