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The Head of State held a meeting with the Prime Minister of Croatia within the Three Seas Initiative

 

That Bulgaria and Croatia will unite their efforts in deepening the European integration of both countries was a joint position, shared by the President Rumen Radev and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia Andrej Plenkovi?, who held a meeting today in Sofia. The discussion was part of the Sixth Three Seas Initiative Summit and Business Forum in the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.

 

Bulgaria’s and Croatia’s accession to Schengen was also among the topics discussed at the meeting between Rumen Radev and Andrej Plenkovi?. Both shared the position that what has been achieved by both countries should be acknowledged, and it should lead to results. The Bulgarian Head of State emphasised the effective fight against corruption, crime and illegal migration as a key factor of our country’s achievement in the ambitions for becoming a member of Schengen. “We share a common path in this, and it should be marked, not by competition, but by partnership,” the Croatian Prime Minister pointed out.

 

The European perspective of the Western Balkans was also discussed. Andrej Plenkovi? stated that it is in the interest of the entire region to achieve progress in the accession talks for the Republic of North Macedonia. The Bulgarian Head of State emphasised that over the past months, dialogue with our south-western neighbour had been restored, and that through such dialogue sustainable and irreversible results in bilateral relations between Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia would be achieved, in order to commence the EU Accession talks for our neighbour. 

 

In recent years, Bulgaria and Greece have raised bilateral cooperation in the development of energy and infrastructure connectivity to a new level. This was the common position of the presidents of the two countries, Rumen Radev and Konstantinos Tasoulas, who held a meeting today within the framework of the Delphi Economic Forum.

Every country in the Balkans has its own perspective on history, but one of the most important historical lessons is that after centuries of rivalries and contradictions, we have finally realized that cooperation is a much better choice than wars, said the president of the Delphi Economic Forum

President Radev stressed that Bulgaria's accession to the OECD is a key foreign policy goal for our country, which all responsible institutions are working consistently to achieve

President Rumen Radev held bilateral meetings within the framework of the forum