site.btaPM Denkov to Attend Wednesday's EU-Western Balkans Summit

Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov is participating in the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Brussels on Wednesday and in the European Council meeting of December 14-15, the Government Information Service said on Wednesday.

The leaders of the EU Member States and of the countries of the Western Balkans are meeting in Brussels a year after the 2022 Summit in Tirana. The initiative is an opportunity to reaffirm the EU membership perspective of the Western Balkans as well as the need for partners' sustained and irreversible reform achievements, underpinned by EU values and principles.

At the European Council meeting, the EU state and government leaders will discuss the EU response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, EU solidarity with Ukraine, EU enlargement policy, the EU's long-term budget 2021-2027 and security and defence cooperation.