Interior ministry

Bulgaria will continue building the fence along its border witn Turkey meant to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, the government has decided.

The Interior Ministry should draft an engineering project and set a timeline for its implementation by 30 January, according to an action plan approved by the cabinet on Wednesday.

The problem with migration is Bulgaria is systemic, not sporadic, according to Gen Miho Mihov, Chair of the parliamentary defense committee and MP from the ABV Movement (Alternative for Bulgarian Revival).

In a Monday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio, Gen Mihov claimed that there was no enduring continuity in the country?s security and defense policy.

Employees from all prisons in Bulgaria go on strike on Monday in order to protest the misapplication of the Interior Ministry Act.

The Government approved an Emergency Ordinance that changes certain emergency response procedures, as well as two government decisions that set forth concrete relevant measures, Government spokesman Corneliu Calota announced on Tuesday at the Victoria Palace.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry has been provided with reliable evidences from its Greek colleagues that the former chief of the State Agency for National Security (DANS) Petko Sertov is in Greece.

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Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea is underway to Constanta County, where the crash of a helicopter of the Emergency Mobile Resuscitation and Extrication Service (SMURD) was reported, the Ministry of the Interior informs.

BELGRADE - The European Commission (EC) wants to see Serbia among the first countries to become new members of the European Union (EU), European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopulos has said.

BELGRADE - Serbia will continue to be a reliable partner of the EU and will efficiently overcome the challenges facing every candidate state during accession negotiations, Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said at the EU - Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs in Belgrade Friday.

BELGRADE - An EU-Western Balkans interior ministers' forum on the battle against international terrorism, crime and corruption will be held in Belgrade on Friday.

The meeting is organised by the Serbian interior and justice ministries, with support from Italy, as the presiding country of the EU, and the European Commission.

Veselin Vuchkov expects criticism over the weakened investigative capacity of the Interior Ministry in the upcoming progress report of the European Commission.

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