site.btaBulgaria Offers One of Most Flexible Platforms for High-potential Investments in Europe, Bulgarian Development Bank Head Says

At the Three Seas Business Forum, Connecting for Growth 2025, which is taking place in Warsaw on 28 and 29 April, Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) Executive Director and member of the Supervisory Board of the Three Seas Investment Fund, Tsanko Arabadzhiev, said that Bulgaria offers one of the most flexible platforms for high-potential investments in Europe, the BDB press office said.

“We combine EU market access with low operating costs, a strategic geographic location and a new generation of entrepreneurs and infrastructure builders who are ready to work across borders,” Arabadzhiev explained.

Arabadzhiev was part of the panel discussion Accelerating the Development of the Digital Economy in Central and Eastern Europe. He highlighted the significant changes that the Bulgarian Development Bank has undergone. Its mandate has been updated; investments in green energy, logistics, digital infrastructure and healthcare are set to expand.

"We realize that safe projects don't build the future, strategic partnerships do. Investment still stops at national borders," he said, adding that opportunities are moving faster than traditional approval cycles, which can be a brake on investment.

“We need to be ready for bigger, faster, more transformative projects,” Arabadzhiev said.

He added that the EU's InvestAI initiative envisages investments in artificial intelligence factories, some of which will be in Central and Eastern Europe - in Bulgaria, Poland and Slovenia. This will enable technological capacity development, increase competitiveness and improve long-term economic growth.

The two-day conference is part of the 10th Three Seas Initiative Summit and is one of the most significant platforms for building links between businesses, political and academic leaders from 13 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the BDB announcement said.

The event was held under the auspices of Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland. The forum focused on the most important economic, infrastructure and technological issues shaping the future of the region between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas and its key role in the development of the EU.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev took part in the Summit meeting and the accompanying business forum at the invitation of his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda.

The Three Seas Initiative is aimed to promote cooperation and connectivity in the energy, transport and digital domains among 13 EU Member States: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The Initiative also includes Ukraine and Moldova as associated countries, and Germany, the European Commission, the United States and Japan as strategic partners.