“What we are working towards is a common mechanism for all countries that has nothing to do with the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism. Obviously someone copy-pasted part of a report from last year. The person who prepared the text made a mistake,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva said in a bTV appearance regarding what turned out to be a machination - namely, the news that according to a European Commission report the monitoring mechanism for Bulgaria will not be lifted after all.

“I am not going to resign because of a machination regarding the EC monitoring that was stirred up by a publication of a natural gas oligarch,” Minister of Justice Danail Kirilov told the Bulgarian National Television.

As head of the executive branch, PM Boyko Borissov copes with the management of this crisis very well. This assessment was made in an interview of Yordan Tsonev, the deputy floor leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms to the Panorama programme of the Bulgarian National TV.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov conferred in Ankara on Monday evening with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss opportunities for overcoming the tension caused by the increased migrant flow from Turkey to the EU in recent days and the measures for de-escalating the tension in Syria. The two gave a joint news conference after the meeting, during which Erdogan slammed the EU for failing to share the refugee burden with Turkey.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and a delegation led by him arrived in Greece for the fourth meeting of the Council for High-level Cooperation between the governments of Bulgaria and Greece. In Alexandroupolis Borissov was welcomed by Greek Foreign Minister Nikolaos Dendias.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson is on a working visit to Bulgaria for talks with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov, and other officials. Meeting Johansson, Borissov said, quoted by the government's information service, that migration is a priority topic for Bulgaria and at the moment the country successfully manages the migratory pressure.

On Monday Prime Minister Boyko Borissov met with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Matthew A. Palmer. Borissov is quoted as saying that Bulgaria and the United States are allies and strategic partners, and that the cooperation between the two countries continues to expand not only in the bilateral ties but also in NATO and within the EU-US relations.

Bulgarian Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev held a working meeting on Wednesday in Brussels with Executive Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans, the Prosecuting Magistracy said in a press release Thursday.

Climate change topped the agenda of Wednesday's meeting between Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, said the Government Information Service. Borissov is paying a two-day working visit to Brussels.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told reporters that the President's statement disunited the nation. Borissov noted: "The President has not lent me confidence and there is no way he can strip me of it. This statement is a direct interference in the separation of powers - precisely the opposite of what he is saying."