- Two Bulgarian policemen died after a bus carrying 47 illegal migrants from Syria rammed a police car trying to stop it in Burgas, reinforcing doubts about the widespread corruption in border control.
- Bulgaria guards part of the EU’s land border with Turkey, and one of the main routes for illegal migrants from the Middle East and Asia to Western Europe passes through the country.
- Bulgaria is not a member of the Schengen area due to objections from several countries about corruption problems, although the European Commission has declared that the authorities in Sofia have the technical readiness to join Schengen.
Bulgarian crash draws attention to illegal migration failures
