Structural Reform Support Service

The Commission has adopted a decision approving additional requests from Bulgaria for technical support through the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP). The projects financed by today's decision focus on reforms in the area of insolvency, with accompanying measures to reinforce the judicial infrastructure and the corporate governance of State-Owned Enterprises.

A more dynamic approach on the issue of monitoring on Bulgaria's judiciary, rule of law and fight against corruption is needed and will be implemented from next year on, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said.

The Commission intends to introduce it "starting from January 2017," he has added in a letter to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has held talks with the ambassadors of the UK, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands before the meeting of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday.

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker wrote an article on the events occurred in 2015, “a year when European solidarity withstood what may have been the greatest trials it has faced since the end of World War II”.

Here are the opening remarks by EU Social Dialogue Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis in the debate on frontloading existing EU funds for investment in Greece:

Honourable Chair, Honourable Members,