Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2025 All Rights Reserved

French ambassador hopes to see Bulgaria in Schengen soon with sea, air borders

Photo: BGNES

France supports Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to Schengen and hopes they will join the area soon via their sea and air borders, and later with their land ones. This is what French Ambassador to Bulgaria Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes stated today, as he joined a meeting in Sofia of officials from French companies, members of the French-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, with the Minister of Economy and Energy Dragomir Stoynev. Ambassador Cabanes further said that though just 3% of French investments in Europe had chosen Bulgaria, there were still about a hundred companies operating in this country and employing 10,000. The first thing that we can do is make Bulgaria better known to the French, the ambassador said and added that on January 1 France had opened its labor market to workers from Bulgaria and Romania without even a hint of concern, unlike Germany and UK.



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Bulgarian Parliament to hear cabinet ministers on US "questionnaire" related to Ukraine peacekeeping operation

The Bulgaria Parliament will hear today the Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev about a "questionnaire" prepared by the US on topics related to Bulgaria's readiness to participate in a special military..

published on 2/20/25 6:05 AM
A white fairy tale from Burgas!
Photo: Marina Kirova in the Facebook group

Frosty weather, subzero temperatures expected in almost all regions of Bulgaria on Thursday

On Thursday, the minimum temperatures in Bulgaria will be between minus 14 °C and minus 8°C. In Sofia, it will be around minus 12°C. The day will be sunny but frosty. The thermometer values ​​in most places will be negative. Before noon, there will be..

published on 2/19/25 7:05 PM

Bulgaria honors the memory of national hero Vasil Levski

With various events throughout the country Bulgarians are marking 152 years after the death of the Apostle of Bulgarian Freedom Vasil Levski. Today, at 6:00 p.m. a memorial ceremony in front of the monument to the Apostle of Freedom in Sofia takes..

published on 2/19/25 6:08 PM