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President Rumen Radev and Representatives of the Bulgarian Business Held a Meeting with the Leaders of Industrial Chambers and Employment Organizations from the Republic of Macedonia

The business in Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia should have a clearly defined common vision and strategy so as to achieve growth of trade and to ensure prosperity of the citizens from the two sides of the border. This is what Head of State Rumen Radev said at a meeting with industrial chambers from the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia in Skopje.

The Head of State is on a two-day state visit to the Republic of Macedonia at the invitation of his counterpart Gjorge Ivanov.

Within Rumen Radev’s visit, a memorandum on cooperation between the Macedonian-Bulgarian Industrial Chamber and the Bulgarian-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce was signed. The representatives of the business organizations  accompanying the Head of State together with their counterparts agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding between the Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency and Invest Macedonia.

“I am very happy that we have already developed top-level political trust. This is a prerequisite for the future success of our entrepreneurs,” the President said at the forum.

President Radev identified internal and external security, the good-neighborly relations in the region and the will to invest efforts in high technologies and innovations as inalterable conditions ensuring economic growth and the growth of foreign investments in Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia.

“It is essential that we develop our cooperation in long-term and strategic productions. Attracting foreign investments and the emergence of a larger number of new enterprises on the market also facilitate the establishment of a better model of the way society functions as a whole,” the Head of State said and added that the flourishing private business requires new standards for a stronger fight against corruption.

At the meeting with the business Rumen Radev voiced Bulgaria’s readiness to share with Skopje its experience in European funds absorption and assured that our country will support the projects on infrastructural, digital and transport connectivity, which will facilitate the economic activity on the two sides of the border.