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Your visit is a boost for the deepening of cooperation in education between Bulgaria and Portugal. With these words, the Rector of the University of Lisbon, Prof Luís Ferreira, welcomed the Vice President Iliana Iotova. The meeting was also attended by Prof Hermenegildo Fernandes, Dean of the Faculty of Philology.

 

The largest university in Portugal has 52 thousand students, 20 thousand of whom are foreign. Prof Ferreira expressed gratitude for the good cooperation with Bulgaria. The University of Lisbon has a lectureship in Bulgarian language and culture, and the director of the Centre for Slavic Languages and Cultures at the Faculty of Philology is Bulgarian - prof. Georgi Hristovski.

 

The Vice President emphasised the strong tradition in Bulgaria of studying Portuguese in secondary schools and Universities. She also highlighted the active work of the Camoes Institute for Portuguese Language and Culture. Iotova pointed out that opportunities for student exchange under European programmes and membership in the European University Network should be used to the maximum.

 

The Vice President invited the Dean of the Faculty of Philology, who is a specialist in medieval history, to visit Bulgaria. Bulgaria has many significant archaeological sites. You should definitely visit Veliki Preslav, where the Golden Age of Bulgaria developed. In my country, the third Christian civilisation was born - the Slavic one, Iliana Iotova said.

 

The Vice President is in Lisbon to participate in the forum "Innovative methods and materials for teaching Bulgarian history and geography in Bulgarian schools abroad," which is held under her patronage.

 

 

The Head of State holds a meeting with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO at the US Department of Defense

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