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TOPSHOTS Syrian refugee children play at the recently opened Vrazhdebna shelter in Sofia during the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the EU Aid Commisioner's visit on November 22, 2013. Bulgaria pushed on November 20 for an EU-wide refugee strategy as it struggles to cope with a mass influx of asylum-seekers, the majority of them Syrian. Bulgaria -- the poorest country in the bloc and its outermost border to the southeast -- has found itself grossly unprepared to welcome the more than 10,000 refugees, including Syrians fleeing conflict at home, who have entered the country illegally so far this year from Turkey. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFFDIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: -