site.btaBulgarian PM at Thessaloniki Summit: Balkans Have Big Future

November 15 (BTA) - Addressing the participants in the Fourth Summit in Thessaloniki on Thursday evening, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that the efforts of North Macedonia and Albania towards their EU accession should be huge and clear, and he would continue helping North Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in this direction. "What bothers me is the division in North Macedonia's society on the topic of the EU. A country should have a very clear decision by all parties, by the entire political class, that this is a long-term path," Borissov noted, as quoted by the Government Information Service.

The Bulgarian PM also told the forum that the Balkans have a big future. "The perspective is forward - business, tourism, energy - and we are doing that. Going backward is detrimental," he stressed.

Borissov said that in December the Bulgarian coastal city of Varna will host a quadrilateral meeting between Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Serbia as a traditional platform for asserting the regional economic and political cooperation.

The Bulgarian PM told the Greek business representatives that the relations between Bulgaria and Greece are excellent. In his words, not a single Greek company working in Bulgaria has complained. "I am very careful with taxes. For ten years now we have not touched the taxes, and investors know this," Borissov said.