EC: Bulgaria among six EU countries hit hard by migration

Bulgaria is one of six EU countries the European Commission says have been significantly affected by migration over the past five years. EU migration commissioner Magnus Brunner presented the findings in the Commission’s second annual assessment of asylum and migration, Bulgarian National Radio’s Brussels correspondent Angelina Piskova reported.

The other five are Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia and Poland. All six can ask the Council of the EU to waive all or part of their 2027 contributions to the bloc’s solidarity pool.

The Commission classified Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Spain as being under migratory pressure. It identified 15 countries at risk of such pressure, including four of the six named above. The 15 are Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Slovenia.

Edited by Miglena Ivanova