500 to 600 additional officers will be deployed on the Bulgarian border with Turkey and Serbia. Frontex boss Hans Leijtens promised the Balkan country support in entering the Schengen area.
Bulgaria has a “very important” role in guarding the EU’s external borders. The 259 kilometer long Bulgarian EU external border withTurkey on the mainland has been completely protected by a wire fence with spikes and monitored with thermal imaging cameras since 2017. People from war and crisis areas often want to bypass the border crossings so that they are not registered in the poorest EU country.