PM Borisov Reports on Bulgaria's Work in EU H1

Bulgaria in EU | September 2, 2010, Thursday // 11:22|  views

In the presentation of the report of Bulgaria's participation in the decision-making process in the EU, PM Boyko Borisov has stated that Bulgaria has fulfilled its commitments in the introduction and implementation of the new EU legislation. Photo by BGN

Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov presented Thursday a report in the Parliament on the country's participation in the decision-making process in the EU in the first half of 2010.

The report also included Bulgaria's priorities during the Belgian EU presidency in the second half of the year.

"Bulgaria participated actively in the discussions for the Europe 2020 strategy," said Borisov, regarding the EU long-term strategy for economic growth and development.

He added that Bulgaria has successfully defended its national goals in the EU.

"In accordance with the five leading European targets, which are planned for the next 10 years, the country already has a draft for the position on the national targets for this period, which will be presented in the next National Reform Program," Borisov said.

He has stated that in the next 10 years Bulgaria needs to achieve a 76% employment of men and women aged between 20 and 60 years, as well as an increase from 1,4% to 2% of the mixed investments from the public and private sector in the fields of science and development.

"Among our goals are also the decrease of the amount of greenhouse gases by 20% compared to 1990, an increase to 16% of the share of wind energy, improving of the energy efficiency by about 25% and a 50% reduction of the energy intensity of GDP by 2020.

Another important goal would be the decrease by 11-12% of the number of students who dropped out of school and the increase by 35-36% of the number of people between 30-34 years of age who have a university degree.

"Bulgaria has fulfilled its commitments in the introduction and implementation of the new EU legislation. The country also had a constructive dialogue and has cooperated with the EC and the EU member states on all matters related to the Cooperation Mechanism," Borisov said.

After he finished with the presentation of the report, the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and former Bulgarian PM, Sergey Stanishev, has stated that the discussions should not be formal and that the Europe 2020 strategy has not been included very much in the report.

"The Bulgarians do not know what Europe 2020 is," Stanishev said.

As an example of the formal attitude, he pointed out that there has been a mistake in the subtitle of the report, which said that the Belgian EU presidency was in the period January-June 2010, instead of the correct period, which is July-December 2010.

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Tags: Boyko Borisov, EU, Europe 2020, Europe 2020 strategy, Belgian EU presidency, parliament, Sergey Stanishev

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