site.btaBulgaria Hosts Sixth Three Seas Initiative Summit, Business Forum

Sofia, July 8 (BTA) - The Sixth annual Summit of the Three Seas
Initiative is taking place in Sofia on Thursday and Friday. The
event is accompanied by a business forum, attended by over 400
Bulgarian and foreign business executives.

The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) involves 12 EU Member States
along a north-south axis from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea
 and the Black Sea in Central and Eastern Europe: Austria,
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
 Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The
initiative aims to promote regional cooperation for transport,
digital and energy connectivity and the achievement of
sustainable economic growth and thus boost social and economic
cohesion in Europe. The US, Germany and the European Commission
are 3SI partners.

The topic of the Presidents' Panel at the 3SI Business Forum on
Thursday is "Three Seas Initiative: A Path to Smart
Development and Comprehensive Economic Growth".

Presidents Rumen Radev of Bulgaria, Frank-Walter Steinmeier of
Germany, Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia, Egils Levits of Latvia,
Andrzej Duda of Poland and Borut Pahor of Slovenia attend the
summit while US President Joe Biden and Lithuanian President
Gitanas Nauseda took part with video addresses. The President of
 Greece, Katerina Sakellaropoulou is this a guest at the 2021
summit. Also attending are International Monetary Fund Managing
Director Kristalina Georgieva and Deputy Prime Ministers Karel
Havlicek of the Czech Republic and Veronika Remisova of
Slovakia.