Ivaylo Kalfin, Bulgaria's Labor and Social and Demographic Policy Minister. Photo by BGNES
"We cannot force refugees into staying in Bulgaria, so there must be a revision of these Dublin Regulations under which they are obliged to stay in the country through which they entered [the EU] or where they were relocated. We can neither arrest them nor tie them up."
Labor and Social Policy Minister Ivaylo Kalfin commenting on the new quotas proposal by the EU Commission under which 1500 more migrants are to be relocated to Bulgaria.