Bird migration

Countries must cooperate if they are to tackle the challenges created by migration, Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Tuesday, marking International Migrants Day.

Greece and Turkey have been in contact in the fight against irregular migration, Greek Minister for Migration Dimitris Vitsas said on Nov.29.

''Bulgaria has not taken a decision on joining the UN Pact on Migration and this cannot be done without discussion in parliament'', Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva told journalists commenting on BSP's doubts that the country has already agreed to join the pact which, according to the left, did not protect Bulgarian national interest and European values, according to the Bulgarian National

Greece's migration minister has pledged to improve living conditions for migrants in camps on islands in the Aegean Sea, where he said arrivals had doubled this summer.

Hundreds of Syrians lined up in front of a migration center in the western Turkish province of İzmir on Aug. 1, triggering a stampede that risked the lives of babies and children. Click through for the story in photos...

The European Commission has announced an additional 37.5 million euros in emergency assistance to improve reception conditions for migrants in Greece.

More than half of the European Union's leaders meet in Brussels on June 24 to grapple with a resurgent political crisis over migration that threatens to tear the bloc apart.

In the framework of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the European Migration Network Presidency conference "Crossroads of Migration: Challenges and Success Factors in Managing Migration Flows" was held in Sofia on 31 May and 1 June.

Although spring officially arrived in Bulgaria on Tuesday evening, it has not kicked in so far with sunshine and blossoming trees, but with heavy snowstorms and freezing rain.

This has been especially true for northeastern Bulgaria, where the late winter hit the hardest.

Safet Khalid of the Silistra village of Zaritsa saved five storks last night from frost. Khalid released late last night on Facebook a photo of the birds he hosted at his home. He found them half stiff and with the help of friends he brought them to his home.

Today, Nezabravka Kirova-Hristova from the same village published a photo of Safet and the storks surviving in his home.