European refugee crisis of 2015-2018: the experience of Bulgaria
The purpose of the article lies in than the European refugee crisis of 2015–2018 demonstrated the lack of compliance in practice with the formal principle of solidarity, which should have guided the national governments of the EU member states in the context of migration policy. The general migration strategy of the EU, which was in force at the beginning of the crisis, was created on the basis of the so-called Dublin regulations and have proved ineffective in intensifying migration flows from third-world countries. Among the "first entry countries" (those countries that have "external" EU borders through migrants entered the EU) also was the Republic of Bulgaria. The purpose of the article is studying the impact of the migration crisis on Bulgaria, analyzing its experience as a "first entry country" on the eastern Mediterranean refugee route. Research methods are presented by the historical-system method (to form the holistic view of the various components of the migration crisis), historical-genetic method (to understand the patterns and causal relationships that led to the intensification of migration flows), as well as the law of "call-response" to understand measures organized by the EU institutions and national governments of the European Union (including Bulgaria) to counter the effects of the migration crisis. The principles of historicism and objectivity has been also applied. The scientific novelty lies in the analysis of the Bulgarian experience of overcoming the consequences of the migration crisis during the entire period of the migration crisis in 2015–2018 in Europe. Conclusions. The EU's common migration policy system has proved its ineffective in the face of a conflict between the national interests of the EU member states. The supranational principle of decision was proved to be ineffective in practice in the context of the influx of migrants from countries of another civilizational zone, whose integration into the European socio-cultural space was extremely difficult and required large time ...