Ministry of Interior

The current migration pressure is comparable to the highest levels in October last year, Bulgaria's Deputy Interior Minister Filip Gunev told Capital Daily.

Traffic has been partly diverted to Greece, and the number of people who entered Bulgaria from Greece increased ten times, Gunev noted.

Nearly 14 tonnes of cannabis plants were found and destroyed in a police raid in the village of Lebnitsa in Southwest Bulgaria, the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior in Blagoevgrad reported.

Bulgaria’s prison employees will stage a national protest in front of the Ministry of Justice, Monday.

For a month, officers have protested symbolically against the new working hours, demanding to return to the old 24 hour shifts.

BELGRADE - Deputy Protector of Citizens Milos Jankovic has said that more than 4,000 migrants from Asian and African countries whose ultimate goal is reaching Western Europe countries expressed intention to seek asylum in Serbia in the first half of this year.

"Hungarian neo-Nazi will not perform"

NOVI BEČEJ -- Head of the "Araca 95" association from Novi Bečej Ferenc Erdman has denied that a leader of a Hungarian neo-fascist movement would perform at a local festival.

"NIS privatization probe should not be politicized"

LAZAREVAC -- Aleksandar Antić says the investigation into the privatization of NIS "should not be politicized" or brought into "any context involving partners from Russia."

Bulgaria's Customs officers have detained a total of 8 stolen luxury cars worth about EUR 1M in one month only, the Ministry of Interior reported.

The expensive vehicles were seized during auto theft inspections in Western Europe in the period July – August 2014.

Volkswagen is the most common car brand in Bulgaria, according to the Ministry of Interior data regarding the registration of motor vehicles.

A total of 476,327 Volkswagen automobiles have been registered in Bulgaria, however 238,940 of them are over 20 years old, which makes the brand the leader in the ranking of old cars in the country, as well, Speed-Press reports.

The Montenegrin government is to discuss an initiative to change the working hours of the public sector at a session on Thursday.

Instead of working from nine to five, the country's more than 60,000 public employees could start to work at 7am instead.

Five people, who have abducted an Italian citizen in Bulgaria's Sofia have been arrested on July 10, the press center of the Ministry of Interior said.

The night before, the taxi that the Italian was in was stopped by an Opel in Studentski Grad district. 2 men forced him to enter the car and abducted him.