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Bulgaria and North Macedonia reaffirm their commitment to continue the construction of Railway Corridor No. 8

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In Brussels, Bulgaria and North Macedonia reaffirmed their commitment to continue the construction of Railway Corridor No. 8 under the TEN-T Regulation, reported the European Commission’s Directorate General for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations.

This was the outcome of a high-level meeting between Bulgaria’s Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Biser Minchev, Stefan Volkanovski, State Secretary at North Macedonia's Ministry of Transport, Sinisha Ivanovski, Director of Railway Infrastructure in North Macedonia, representatives of the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Transport Community Secretariat.

The two countries agreed to hold a regular high-level dialogue and establish a joint working group for Corridor No. 8, and to find a coordinated technical solution for the construction of the cross-border section of the Corridor, BTA reported.




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