Nancy Faeser is in Bulgaria to discuss questions about the future of EU external border protection. Asylum applications will be examined at these borders in the future.
Bulgaria joined the Schengen area on March 31, but only with freedom from air and sea border controls. There is no timetable for the introduction of theSchengen rules at land borders.Faeser says that Bulgaria has met the necessary criteria for this, so it would be “consequent” to fully apply the ScheNGen rules. The number of asylum applications in Germany has recently fallen. Most of them came from Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan. The reform stipulates that asylum applications from people from countries of origin of less than 20 percent are examined in 20 percent of reception camps at the external borders of the EU. The EU border protection agency Frontex ensures that “action is carried out in accordance with the EU asylum protection rules”. The Bulgarian Interior Minister said these were "isolated cases"