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Bulgaria will strengthen the administrative capacity of local authorities, President Rosen Plevneliev said at a meeting with President of the EU Committee of the Regions, Mercedes Bresso. According to Mercedes Bresso, local authorities will be able to actively participate in defining the priorities of regional development.

Continuinity and consistency are needed in defining and implementing the measures in the national priorities for Bulgaria 2020 because planning and funding them depends on future governments. There was agreement on this point at a meeting today between President Rosen Plevneliev and Sergei Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and president of the Party of European Socialists.

Tourism is a top priority for the Government and the Presidency and we will continue to develop it in all its forms, President Rosen Plevneliev said when he officially opened the latest round of World Cup skiing - alpine skiing, for women - Downhill and Super G, which Bansko is hosting on Saturday and Sunday.

The agenda of the Consultative Council on National Security to be held at the end of March will include energy security and independence and energy efficiency. This emerged at a meeting between President Rosen Plevneliev and the co-chairs of the Blue Coalition, Martin Dimitrov and Ivan Kostov.

“Bulgaria already has nine sites in the UNESCO list of World Cultural and Natural Heritage,” but the country has more to include under the protection of the organisation, including in respect of cultural heritage.