site.btaEU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner to Meet Prime Minister Zhelyazkov and Interior Minister Mitov

EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner will visit Bulgaria on Monday, the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria said.

In Sofia, he will meet Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov and Interior Minister Daniel Mitov to discuss the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, migration management, Bulgaria’s Schengen integration and border management.

Later in the day, Commissioner Brunner, Minister Mitov and Greek Deputy Minister for Migration and Asylum Sevi Voloudaki will visit the  Kulata–Promachonas border crossing. The three will then cross into Greece together, celebrating the free movement without border checks in Schengen.

The Pact on Migration and Asylum was adopted on 14 May 2024. Its reform aims to ease the burden on EU countries where most migrants arrive, offer a fairer and more efficient framework for registering and processing asylum applications, and help reduce secondary movements, according to information on the European Council's website.