Kristalina Georgieva

For the sixth consecutive year, people gathered to dance traditional Bulgarian Horo on the central square in the capital of Europe - Brussels.

The event is part of the cultural calendar of the Bulgarian Euro-Presidency and is under the patronage of the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani.

Bulgaria will set the topic for the creation of a new European disaster management system at the Summit in June. This was announced by Interior Minister Valentin Radev after a meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and the EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis ManagementChristos Stylianides.

"We are ready to finance a trade and transport project in the Western Balkans region of up to USD 200 million", World Bank Executive Director Kristalina Georgieva said at a meeting of the leaders of the Western Balkans in Sofia, reports actualno

The World Bank is ready to extend up to $200 million for projects that will boost transport and trade links between Western Balkans countries, its chief executive officer Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday.

''We are ready to finance a trade and transport project in the Western Balkans region of up to $ 200 million.'' World Bank Executive Director Kristalina Georgieva said at a meeting of the leaders of the Western Balkans in Sofia.

The meeting came on the eve of the international conference "Stronger Regional Integration in the Balkans," the Serbian government announced.

Brnabic and Georgieva "agreed that Serbia has achieved macroeconomic stability and financial consolidation in the past few years owing to comprehensive economic reforms that are consistently being implemented."

''I expect Bulgaria to enter the Eurozone waiting room next year.'' This is what Kristalina Georgieva, Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank, said in the show "This morning" on bTV.

Mariya Gabriel, a MEP and Vice-Chairwoman of the European People's Party, is facing a key hearing for her appointment as an European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society on Tuesday.

A letter of PM Boyko Borisov sent to President of the EC Jean-Claude Juncker informs on the cabinet's decision to nominate MEP Maria Gabriel for Bulgaria's next EU commissioner, stating his certainty that she will have her valuable contribution to the Commission's work, quoted by BNR.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's new cabinet, at its first meeting on Wednesday, nominated Mariya Gabriel, an MEP from the centre-right European People's Party, for the post of EU Commissioner.

Borissov's office said he had informed the President of the European Commission about the decision.