Acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev will participate today in the Berlin Process Summit in the German capital, the press service of the Council of Ministers announced.
This is the tenth consecutive meeting in the format of leaders of the countries of the Western Balkans and of the partner countries of the initiative, as well as representatives of international financial institutions and regional organizations.
The Berlin Process was established in 2014 as a platform to strengthen cooperation between the countries of the Western Balkans and the host countries of the Berlin Process, as well as the European Union. The Forum aims to assist countries in the region in achieving European standards and bring concrete benefits to the citizens of the region. The main idea of the initiative is to support the process of European integration of the countries of the Western Balkans, and the activity of the process is directed in three main directions: economy and connectivity; reconciliation and good neighborly relations; security.
Participants in the process are the countries of the Western Balkans – Albania, Serbia, the Republic of North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Kosovo, as well as the countries – Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Great Britain, Poland, Greece and Bulgaria. , the press release states.
At the beginning of the month, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Kondov participated in the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries of the Berlin Process at the invitation of his German colleague Analena Berbock. In his speech, Minister Kondov emphasized the importance of good neighborly relations and the principle of taking into account one’s merits in the process of joining the European Union (EU). He singled out the efforts of our country in terms of connectivity, as a factor in strengthening the EU as a geopolitical actor. Kondov also emphasized the importance of the regional market as a mechanism for promoting understanding and rapprochement with the EU.