The Dublin Regulation places the countries forming the external EU borders such as Bulgaria, Italy, Greece and Malta at a disadvantage and therefore efforts should be pooled to ensure a new system which should take into account these countries’ specific characteristics and problems. This is what President Rumen Radev told journalists in Rome after holding a meeting with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella. The Bulgarian Head of State is on a working visit to Italy at the invitation of his counterpart President Mattarella.

The most important prerequisite for guaranteeing the stability and security and achieving a high economic growth in the Western Balkans is the European prospects of the countries in the region. It will be a priority issue of the forthcoming Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the EU in 2018. This is what President Rumen Radev said at a joint news conference with Montenegrin Head of State Filip Vujanovic in Cetinje. Bulgaria is ready to continue supporting Montenegro’s process of European integration, including by supplying our specialists’ expertise, Rumen Radev emphasized.

More investments and joint projects in the sphere of infrastructure, energy and digitalization in the region of the three seas – the Black, Adriatic and Baltic Seas will bring added value to the citizens of Central and Eastern Europe and will make the whole European Union more competitive and purpose-oriented. The sustainable development of our dynamic region depends on our skill to coordinate our policies, to clearly define and defend our common goals. This is what Head of State Rumen Radev said, who took part in the Three Seas Initiative in Warsaw.

Bulgaria and Romania share a common goal to improve and expand the energy and transport infrastructure which connects the two countries and will work so as to build new bridges and ferryboat lines across the Danube, which will encourage the contacts between the people and the businesses. This was the common stance adopted by Presidents Rumen Radev and Klaus Iohannis, who held talks in Bucharest today. The Bulgarian Head of State is on an official visit to Romania.