Fences

The opposition conservative New Slovenia party, NSi, on Thursday, demanded a session of the foreign policy and interior policy committees in parliament to discuss the new joint Italian-Slovenian border patrols on the borders of the two countries.

The United States will send more than 5,200 troops to the border with Mexico because of the increased influx of refugees from Central America.

The Pentagon said the forces would be deployed by the end of the week with weapons, helicopters, airplanes, barriers, and barbed wire to help border patrols.

Between 200 and 300 thousand leva will cost the fence that will be built on our land border with Romania to limit the risk of African swine fever. It will be four-row with a barbed wire, of which one linear meter costs 60 stotinki.

With a barbed wire fence on one side and a putrid creek on the other, 6,000 Rohingya Muslims in a strip of land between Bangladesh and Myanmar anxiously wait to see if they will be sent back to homes few want to return to.

Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova expressed hope that the main facilities of the fence at the border with Turkey will be completed by the end of March.

Bachvarova said this during a parliamentary question and answer session on Friday, daily Dnevnik informs.

Hungarian police placed more barbed-wire on the Horgos 2 border crossing with Serbia overnight, and put a steel fence behind it.

Hungarian soldiers have started the construction of an additional four-meter high wooden barrier on the country's southern border with Serbia.

Serbian state broadcaster RTS reported on Sunday that a three-row barbed wire fence has already been built along the 175 kilometers of the border.

Olive groves at the disaster-struck town in western Turkey were surrounded by a wire fence to make way for the construction of a third thermic plant

The 131km fence which Bulgaria plans to build at the Turkish border may lead to an infringement procedure against the country, according to Michail Ekimdzhiev.

In a Wednesday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio, human rights lawyer Ekimdzhiev said that the statement of caretaker Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki was inappropriate for any European politician.

So far the Bulgarian army has spent BGN 1 M on the construction of the 30-km fence at the border with Turkey, reports the Trud daily. 

One third of the sum has been spent on petrol and diesel, according to the reports, presented by Defence Minister Angel Naidenov. 

According to him, so far have been completed 9 km of the fence.