/ world today news/ The Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Internal Order in the EP Iliana Yotova and the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Internal Security and Public Order Atanas Merdzhanov are organizing a two-day workshop “Refugees – from European strategies to national and local policies”, which will be held on March 26 and 27, 2015.
On the first day of the program, a visit to the coordination center in the city is planned. Elhovo and the engineering facility on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. During the second day of the program, the participants of the working meeting are expected to visit the refugee center in the city of Harmanli and the holding of the working meeting on migration issues.
MEPs, people’s representatives, representatives of the European agencies EUROPOL and EASO (European Office for the Support of Asylum Seekers), representatives of the national and local authorities will take part in the meeting. The meeting will discuss the problems of migration and the increasing flows of refugees, as well as the problems facing national and local authorities.
The working meeting takes place days before the European Commission officially presents a package of legislative proposals in the field of migration and asylum.
“My idea, first of all, is to get together and think about how to help our country, because all the attention is now on the Mediterranean, and our municipalities are in a very difficult situation and the EU aid they receive is unfairly small. Yotova shared.
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