General Affairs Council

Minister Delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba will attend on Tuesday the meeting of the General Affairs Council (GAC), with Romania's list of priorities while holding the helm of the EU Council topping the event's agenda.

The legal powers of the minister-delegate for European affairs regarding the representation and management of the General Affairs Council files will be taken over and fulfilled a by another government official, according to an order of the prime minister.

The relations between Romania and Luxembourg are unfolding in a privileged framework of dialogue at both bilateral and European level, marked by the moment in 2007 when Luxembourg and Sibiu became European Capitals of Culture, which gave a new boost to the bilateral relationship and created a substantial bond not only between the two cities but also between the two countries, Romania's

Minister-delegate for European Affairs Victor Negrescu participated on Friday in Brussels in meeting of the General Affairs Council (Article 50) in the EU 27 format, organised following the initiation of the process on UK's withdrawal from the European Union.

Today, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Ekaterina Zaharieva chaired the General Affairs Council meeting in an EU-27 format (GAC Article 50). That was the last meeting of this Council formation under the Bulgarian Presidency.

With Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva as chair, EU Member States today set out the path towards opening of accession negotiations with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania in June 2019.

The EU Foreign and European Affairs ministers held a first exchange of views on the Commission proposal for the next long-term EU budget at the General Affairs Council meeting chaired by Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister for Judicial Reform and Minister for Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva.

Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2018 Liliana Pavlova will take part in Brussels today at a high-level conference dedicated to the Shaping Our Future Community Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF) after 2020 -  Designing the Next Multiannual Financial Framework ".

Deputy Minister of Health, responsible for European affairs, Dr. Miroslav Nenkov, will present officially the nomination of Sofia to host the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

In a statement on Dec. 7, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan underlined that Turkey was on the eve of "very crucial" decisions on the European Union, in reference to ongoing negotiations on granting visa liberalization to Turkish citizens.