The programs and priorities of the Bulgarian Presidency as part of the priorities of the trio (Estonia, Bulgaria and Austria) were flexible enough and allowed Bulgaria to keep abreast of current issues all the time.
In this way the Minister of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of EU Lilyana Pavlova summed up the results of the Presidency during the past 6 months at a special discussion on the topic.
At the forum, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva pointed to setting a date for the start of accession talks with Macedonia and Albania as a success of the Bulgarian EU Presidency
Regarding the migration crisis, she called for an all-European solution. Otherwise “we will fall apart or destroy what we have built,” she said and specified that currently “migrants are 68.5 million worldwide which represents the biggest migration wave in human history.”
Conditions for mountain hiking are good until midday, with the exception of the Balkan Range, where there will be fog and rain, the Mountain Rescue Service says. In the afternoon the weather conditions will worsen and mountain hiking is not..
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry is posting additional staff at consular missions to cope with the tourist industry’s increasing needs of foreign workers during the summer season, reads the Foreign Ministry’s position regarding an interview given by..
Caretaker Energy Minister Vladimir Malinov is on a working visit to Turkey. Today he will hold talks in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart, Dr Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. The meeting is on the initiative of..
Hail storm caused huge damage in the regions of Plovdiv, Haskovo, Stara Zagora and Sliven. No people were injured but crops in many..
Today Bulgaria is hosting a global event of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The results of the organisation's global..
On Saturday, minimum temperatures in the country will be between 5 and 10°C, around 5°C in Sofia. The morning will be sunny. In the afternoon it will be..
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