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Bulgaria, Italy: Only a United EU Can Tackle the Crisis

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva and Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, discussed the consequences of COVID-19 in Europe

07 July 2020

Bulgaria Raises the Issue of Reopening Checkpoints along the Greek Border

Deputy Foreign Minister Petko Doykov raised the issue of reopening of the checkpoints at the Bulgarian border with Greece in a discussion with Greek Ambassador Dimitrios Chronopoulos.

03 July 2020

Bulgaria Asks UK Government to Explain Quarantine for Bulgarian Nationals

Acting on orders of Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ekaterina Zaharieva, the Bulgarian Embassy in London has sent a note to the British government with a request for an explanation of why Bulgaria has been removed from the list of countries whose nationals are exempt from quarantine as of 10 July.

03 July 2020

New Bulgarian Youth Delegates to UN Chosen at MFA

Deputy Foreign Minister Milen Lyutskanov congratulated Bulgaria’s two new youth delegates to the UN for 2020-2021 at a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)

03 July 2020

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Adopts a Declaration against the Rehabilitation of Persons Implicated in Crimes of the Holocaust

The document urges states to assist research, to foster public awareness and to assume political responsibility for the awareness of their own national history in the years of the Holocaust and the past of individuals implicated in crimes planned and perpetrated by Nazi Germany, its fascist and extreme nationalist partners and other collaborators.

03 July 2020

Deputy Minister Lyutskanov Opens a Session of the OECD Interdepartmental Coordination Mechanism

The Interdepartmental Coordination Mechanism for preparing Bulgaria to join the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) has discussed the state of play as regards preparations.

02 July 2020

Ekaterina Zaharieva: We Should Not Allow Division in the EU over the Coronavirus Crisis

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva restated Bulgaria’s support for the priorities of the German Presidency of the Council of the EU, which started on 1 July. She pointed out its important role for the EU’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

02 July 2020