site.btaEC Awards Additional EUR 1.22 Mln to Help Improve Conditions for Refugees in Bulgaria

Brussels, July 10 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission (EC) has awarded an additional 1.22 million euro in emergency assistance to support UNHCR's activities in Bulgaria to help improve reception conditions and the protection environment of asylum seekers and refugees, the Commission said Monday.

The funding will support the monitoring of asylum procedures and the provision of legal, psychological and psychosocial support, including for child migrants. This brings the total emergency assistance for migrant and border management in Bulgaria to 170 million euro on top of the 91 million euro allocated to Bulgaria under the national programmes for the period 2014-2020, the EC press release said.