Significantly fewer irregular border crossings have been registered at Bulgaria’s external EU border with Turkey so far this year, the government in Sofia has said. “There is no increased migratory pressure on Bulgaria, but rather a permanent trend towards a reduction,” acting Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov said in parliament on Wednesday. Since the beginning of the year, 5,200 attempts to “illegally cross” the Bulgarian-Turkish border have been prevented. In the same period last year, the figure was 15,600, Stoyanov said. Since the beginning of the year, 260 migrants have been detained insi…