12.07.2018

Minister of Finance Vladislav Goranov presented the results from the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU in the area of economic and financial affairs to the members of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament. Before the Members of the European Parliament, Minister Goranov expressed his confidence that the results achieved by the Bulgarian Presidency were important and significant for the future of the EU and had materialised thanks to the joint efforts and the extremely good institutional interaction. He noted that the success of a Presidency of the Council of the EU on key economic issues could not be credited to just one state, but it was due to the joint efforts of the previous Presidencies, the dialogue among the institutions and the dynamics of the economic logic during the relevant period. In his statement he pointed out that the Bulgarian Presidency had worked with maximum openness and transparency and had done its best to balance the interests of all stakeholders.

You can watch the video with the statement and the Q&A session here.

In Sofia, experts from the Ministry of Finance also presented to the media the results in the priority areas for the Ministry. The participants and the chairs of working groups to the Council explained the process of files’ development and negotiations as well as the achievements and their meaning for the citizens. The experts from the Ministry of Finance shared their impressions and the more significant challenges in the priority themes for the Ministry in whose working process they had participated. They reported on the status of the files falling within the MoF competence as of June 2018 – completed trialogue/common approach achieved/progress report/adopted conclusions.

The experts also presented details from the organisation of the smooth running of the European Union's economic policy coordination cycle for 2018 – the European Semester. They replied to journalists’ questions and provided clarifications on the achievements in the field of financial services and financial markets, tax policy, deepening of the Economic and Monetary Union and the negotiation process for the next Multiannual Financial Framework.