04.03.2025
Just and lasting peace can be achieved as peace via security for Ukraine and for the European Union. This was stated by Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov after the close of the Security Council convened by the EU, while he emphasized that it was precisely the view on which the participants in the Council agreed. The Prime Minister noted that Bulgaria disagrees to be put in a situation, actively or passively, where it should choose its support for and attitude to the war in the different trends that the European Union and the United States of America are proponents for. “We view them as NATO allies and as a joint guarantee for the protection of our national security,” Rossen Jeliazkov said.
Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov thanked all participants in today’s Security Council for the constructive tone. “We all premised on the understanding that the crux of our national security is a shared responsibility of the political players. Therefore, all the decisions that Bulgaria will uphold are based on decisions taken by the National Assembly and are in line with the same decisions,” the Prime Minister said further.
Today’s Security Council discussed the risks to Bulgaria’s national security in different hypotheses. Security services and cabinet ministers presented reports. The possibilities in three segments were examined. First, the mobilization of a resource in a special EU fund to enable the member states, Bulgaria included, to reindustrialize their defense industry. Second, the options that are provided to approach the national budget with the derogation of the deficit clause. Third, the Prime Minister underscored the possibilities to use the Cohesion Fund and other EU funds to mobilize a resource that, in the words of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, will amount to EUR 800 billion, approximately, in the next few years. “It is important for us to seize these opportunities to put our military industry on the track of extensive development, with better coordination between public and private enterprises in the sector,” Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov said in conclusion.
