site.btaSofia Hosts Conference on Metals as Strategic Asset

The conference "Metals as a strategic asset for EU independence and industrial leadership. Bulgaria's contribution to sustainable growth" will be held on Friday in Sofia, announced the organizer of the forum, the Bulgarian Association of the Metallurgical Industry.

Among the topics that will be discussed are metals in the global world, the European Union's policies for industrial acceleration, competitiveness and decarbonization, Bulgaria's place on the EU industrial map, energy and industry, competitiveness and accelerated growth, regulations and regimes - reduction of administrative burdens and regulations, simplified procedures.

Issues of investment, state aid, climate change, the European Steel and Metals Action Plan, the potential for extraction of strategic metals from primary and secondary resources, the state and prospects for Bulgaria's industrial development, metallurgy as a factor of economic growth will also be addressed.

The conference will be attended by MEPs Tsvetelina Penkova, Radan Kanev and Ilhan Kuchuk.