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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to visit Bulgaria

Ursula von der Leyen
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The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is to pay a visit to Sofia on 8 April to present, personally, the EU’s assessment of Bulgaria’s recovery and resilience plan, the Bulgarian government has announced.  

Together with PM Kiril Petkov she will visit projects included in the plan, in which more than 100 investments and reforms are set down. It envisages digital administrative services, improvement of transparency and competitiveness in public procurement procedures, grants for businesses and financial instruments in support of industrial parks, significant investments in infrastructure, such as high-speed rail transport, the purchase of new trains, the construction of an air transport emergency medical service, access to fast Internet in sparsely populated areas etc. 



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