20.03.2025
At discussions of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) Bulgaria will insist on the continuation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Cohesion Policy (CP) and the policies related to the Internal Security Fund (ISF). This was stated by Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov in Brussels before the opening of today’s European Council meeting. We will insist on the conservation of the current model of shared responsibility in the management and the flexibility of these instruments, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister said and added that this position is shared also by a number of other European countries.
Today the Heads of State and Government will discuss, inter alia, the issue of the common defense policy with a focus on the White Paper on the Future of European Defense Capability and the allocation of Euro 150 billion for defense projects. Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov was firm that Bulgaria should proactively take advantage of all possible financial instruments while it builds better cooperation between individual enterprises – public and private – in the Bulgarian military defense industry. Bulgaria must develop its defense industry in a way to be part of the common European defense market and, in addition, to be a net exporter and not just an importer, Rossen Jeliazkov said further.
Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov expressed condolences to the relatives of the Bulgarian in employment of the United Nations who lost his life in Gaza and insisted on an investigation to throw light on the case. The Prime Minister recalled that the evening before Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev spoke over phone with his Israeli counterpart. Bulgaria was given an assurance that there had been no Israeli strikes at that time in the said place. “It is important for us that the picture be clear and that responsibility be assumed,” Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov said.
In his answer to a media question, Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov pointed out that in keeping with political rules, the majority in Parliament forms a government and that the executive branch of power rests on that majority both for its election and for the implementation of major political priorities. Current political logic shows that we have the said majority, Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov noted. Regarding Bulgaria’s accession to the Eurozone, the Prime Minister said he would expect positive convergence reports in the summer. Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov was firm that European future is the only rational, meaningful and right course to follow for Bulgaria’s development as a sovereign and prosperous country.
