Currently Bulgaria will not be nominating a European Commissioner but this could happen at a later stage. This is what caretaker Prime Minister Gerdzhikov said in response to a journalist's question whether there was consensus between him and President..
Between January and November 2016 Bulgaria’s exports increased with 6.8% year on year to EUR 14.8 billion, the National Statistical Institute informs. 64% of the country’s exports were directed to Germany, Italy, Romania, Greece and France. Meanwhile,..
The European Commission has approved the last payment of emergency financial assistance to protect the Bulgarian border as an external border of the EU and for measures against migratory flow coming from Turkey. EC President Jean-Claude Juncker vowed..
We count on greater involvement of all EU countries and support to Bulgaria in case of a sharp rise of the migrant wave and on support for Schengen membership. This is what Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said at a joint press conference after talks..
Bulgaria has not expressed a new position related to the EU sanctions against Russia. This is what Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the preparation of the Bulgarian presidency of the EU in the current caretaker government of Bulgaria, Denitsa..
To the excitement related to change of power in Sofia in the past week, one can add that caused by the EC report on reforms in the country in the past decade. The main conclusion of the document is that there was no fundamental change in the fight..
Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev and sixteen European political leaders called on in an open letter the President-elect of the United States Donald Trump to bolster the transatlantic alliance between the USA and the EU. In their message to..
In its first working day for 2017 the European Commission marked the 10th anniversary of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU. "Bulgaria and Romania that joined the EU 10 years ago, are now vital European democracies. Our congratulations on..
Democracy and the rule of law are Europe’s most powerful weapons. Europe is an area where people feel free, Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev said in an interview for the German newspaper Frankfrurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Bulgaria’s head of state..
Before tomorrow’s European Council meeting, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov stated that Bulgaria was in favour of continuing the process of EU accession negotiations with Turkey: “The EU-Turkey readmission agreement and the process of..
