Turkey saids it requires funding to meet the needs of refugees arriving to the county amid the conflict in Syria, with the Ankara government having spent billions of dollars on accommodation. Photo EPA/BGNES

Bulgaria will contribute EUR 5.9 M to the EU package of EUR 3 B due to be disbursed to Turkey as part of its commitment to keep migrants from entering Europe.



This comes after EU governments agreed on Wednesday evening on the mechanism to provide the funding.



After disagreement among member states of how the money will be raised, a compromise was reached to collect EUR 1 B from cohesion funding, with the rest to come from installments based on each member state's GDP.