Bulgaria’s PM in Poland for EU presidency talks

PM Boyko Borisov (left) and Donald Tusk, photo: PAP/Adam Warżawa

The prime minister’s meeting with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, in Sopot, northern Poland, comes as part of a series of international consultations preceding Poland’s EU presidency, starting July 1st.

The Polish and Bulgarian leaders will also assess the situation in North Africa and calls for a tightening up of the border-free travel Schengen Zone area after an increase in migration from Tunisia, Egypt and Lybia in the wake of the uprisings there.

Bulgaria is still hoping to entering the zone this year however and is interested in Polish support.

Poland, on the other hand, is counting on Bulgarian assistance for the Eastern Partnership project - an Stockholm, Warsaw initiative to bring ex-Soviet nations closer to the EU – as future EU cohesion policy and Common Agricultural Policy. (ss)