Demography

The refugee center in the western village of Kovachevtsi will be closed, according to Nikolay Chirpanliev, Chair of Bulgaria's State Agency for Refugees.

In an interview for Presa daily, Chirpanliev says that the authorities will have to move some 100 people, who currently live there, to other centers.

Almost half of the Syrian female refugees in Turkey do not want to work even if they were provided with a job, according to results from a recent survey conducted by the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD).

The survey, which was conducted among 1,500 Syrian female refugees living in 20 refugee camps in Turkey and 1,200 living in 10 Turkish cities.

At least 20 people were arrested after a fight broke out between refugees from Kosovo and Bosnia and shots were fired at Montenegro’s largest refugee camp in the capital.

The European Commission will give 3.9 million euros in aid to humanitarian groups helping refugees from the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane

There were cases in which persons, connected to terrorist organisations, tried to enter Bulgaria as a part of the refugee wave, Vladimir Pisanchev, head of the National Security Agency (DANS) told journalists.

According to him, the persons, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, were apprehended and in some cases extradited.

The Greek office of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday appealed to the European Union to boost support for Greece and other southern European countries struggling with a growing influx of would-be immigrants, reporting that arrivals on islands in the Aegean have tripled over the past year.

The UN refugee agency has urged the European Union to overhaul its policy toward Syrian refugees, warning the number of fatal accidents at sea could rise further as winter approaches.

The Council of Europe Development Bank will provide funds to help Montenegro build houses for wartime refugees who have been in temporary accommodation for over 15 years.

The Aliens Directorate deported 629 undocumented migrants in September with the cooperation of the local branch of the International Organization for Migration, the Greek police announced on Monday.

The majority of the migrants were flown back to Albania (83 individuals), Pakistan (43) and Algeria (25).

BELGRADE/GENEVA - Ivica Dacic, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has conferred with Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in Geneva, and informed him about the position and problems of refugees from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Serbia and of over 200,000 internally displaced persons from Kosovo-Metohija.