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Ensuring Europe's security in the face of military conflicts next door, strengthening the rule of law in Bulgaria and fighting corruption and organised crime were discussed today by Head of State Rumen Radev at a meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions of the EU member states, the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. 

 

During the meeting, a number of topics on the European Union's agenda were also put to debate, including enhancing the competitiveness of European economies, beefing up the common defence policy, the EU enlargement process to be based on the merits of the candidate countries, curbing illegal migration to Europe, demographic challenges, and others.

 

 

Ignazden's first guest at the presidential institution is Viktor Orban, and I believe that a much better year awaits us both for relations between Bulgaria and Hungary, as well as for our peoples and Europe, the President said after his meeting with the Prime Minister of Hungary

During the talks, the Head of State stressed the key importance of ensuring the safe operation of the nuclear power plant, as well as providing Bulgarian companies, engineers and technical workers with the opportunity to participate in the activities related to the construction and operation of the new units

President Rumen Radev held a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who is visiting the Novo Selo training ground today to get acquainted with the activities of the Multinational Battle Group with Italy as the host country.

During the talks, Radev expressed hope that the state leadership of North Macedonia would proceed as soon as possible to include the Bulgarians in its constitution, which would also open the door for negotiations for the country's full membership in the European Union