site.btaBulgarian Delegation Takes Part in Copenhagen Conference Under Danish EU Presidency

A Bulgarian delegation on Thursday took part in the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), held under the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU.

Addressing an energy panel, Toshko Yordanov, MP from There Is Such a People and deputy head of Bulgaria’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, said that Bulgaria will defend its energy independence. According to Yordanov, Europe needs a Green Deal, but the current deal is unfair, unbalanced, and unstable. He added that if the coal-fired power plants in Bulgaria’s Maritsa basin are shut down, the country’s contribution to reducing European emissions will be 0.02%. But in return, Bulgaria will destroy 40% of its electricity production.

Also attending were parliamentary social committee chair Denitsa Sacheva, defence committee chair Hristo Gadzhev, and MP Stanislav Anastasov.

Anastasov, a member of Bulgaria’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe reported in a Facebook post that the need to enhance complementarity between NATO and the European Union in defence and deterrence, as well as issues related to critical infrastructure and societal resilience, was a key topic at the conference.

Denitsa Sacheva, chair of the Labour and Social Policy Committee in Parliament and Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), wrote on Facebook that the enlargement of the European Union is a strategic investment in common security and this also means expanding the zone of peace.

As a member state from Southeast Europe and the Black Sea region, Bulgaria consistently supports the European future of the countries of the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership, Sacheva added.