Deputy PM Meglena Kuneva: Bulgaria’s EU Presidency to be more expensive because it will be held in the first half of the year

07/28/16 06:42
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Deputy PM Meglena Kuneva: Bulgaria’s EU Presidency to be more expensive because it will be held in the first half of the year

“Bulgaria’s EU Presidency will be more expensive because it will be held in the first half of the year.”
This is what Deputy Prime Minister for European Policies Coordination and Institutional Affairs and Minister of Education and Science Meglena Kuneva said speaking with journalists after the sitting of the Council of Ministers, FOCUS News Agency reporter said.
Earlier today it was officially announced that Bulgaria would assume the rotating EU Presidency as of January 1, 2018.
“It is not impossible to observe the deadlines. We should mobilise ourselves, work faster and better. It would have been more comfortable and we had adjusted ourselves for the second half of the year. The whole preparation was following this schedule. Now, we will have more economic issues because this is natural for the first half of the year. In addition, the term will be longer, and to be frank, it will be more expensive, too, because there is a whole month without any events during the second half of the year,” Ms Kuneva explained.
“The working groups are bigger in number in the first half of the year and it is rich in events,” the Deputy Prime Minister remarked.
“On the other hand, we should look at this rescheduling as an opportunity because there will be several important events during our presidency – Europe Day on May 9, for instance,” she commented further.

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