Boyko Borisov

The Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS) on Tuesday is to hold a sitting over his refusal to allow the use of special surveillance equipment against a former anti-mafia official.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said that the efforts invested by the country in dealing with the refugee crisis have not gone unnoticed.

Borisov reminded the two-day visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to Bulgaria last week when the two heads of government inspected the guarding of the Bulgarian-Turkish border.

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.

It is important to defeat Daesh where it exists - in Iraq and Syria, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said after a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov in Sofia on Thursday.

A Chinese company is to set up a sunflower oil production facility in the industrial zone of Burgas, Bulgaria's Economy Ministry has announced.

The ministry is citing an investment letter of intent between the company and state-owned National Company Industrial Zones, which runs the respective site on the outskirts of the Black Sea port of Burgas.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is supportive of plans to turn the country's capital Sofia and the Chinese city of Shanghai into sister cities, the government's press office has said.

Borisov is on a five-day visit to China alongside seven ministers to attend a summit of Central and Eastern European leaders and a bilateral investment forum.

An international press freedom organization has sought to raise Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov's awareness of instances of harassment of journalists working with an independent investigative website.

The Sofia City Court (SCC) has ruled nationalist leader Volen Siderov and a party member Desislav Chukolov should be released on bail only several hours after having been detained on Tuesday.

Siderov and Chukolov are facing charges of hooliganism. They were indicted and taken into custody for 72 hours upon arrival at the Sofia Investigation Office on Tuesday.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has declined to comment on President Rosen Plevneliev's assertion that Russia planned to wage a 'hybrid warfare' campaign focused on the Balkans in a bid to destabilize Europe.

State-of-the art border monitoring equipment has been installed at the Bulgarian-Turkish border but it is "out of service. Police have no money for electricity," German magazine Der Spiegel's website notes.

Citing official documents, it also suggests the number of people crossing Bulgaria's border without being caught might be "enormous".