PM Borisov with a New Idea for Equal Toll Taxes on the Balkans

Part of the repayment of the credits that international financial institutions could allocate for Balkan connectivity can be made by introducing tolls and road user charges in the region to be unified. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said at a joint press conference with Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic in Podgorica, where he is on an official one-day visit, the government's information office said.

According to Borisov, the Balkans could become a "powerful economic zone".

Bulgaria is in the stage of introducing tolls, and this must be a fact from mid-August 2019.

With a certain degree of risk but also with much will, we have achieved significant results in the process of European integration in the Balkans. I think that by the end of the year, Montenegro has the real chance to enter the European Union, Borisov said. He pointed out that active work must be done to allow the country to close two more chapters of the pre-accession process.

Mixed power transmission company

Boyko Borisov said that a joint venture between the two countries will be established for the transmission of electricity.

"I think this will be a successful project, and I hope we will make an economic forum in the coming months to prepare a similar structure, Montenegro and Italy are doing something unique, we have energy, we can do something like that," the Bulgarian Prime Minister said.

In his words, it will be a Balkan project with the participation of all the states that have an interest.

Bulgarian Experience with Migration

Regarding migration, the Bulgarian Prime Minister reiterated that every country on an external border should make efforts to cope with the migration wave.

"Bulgaria has done...