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Both the security of Bulgarian citizens and the acceleration of Bulgaria's European integration depend on the effective protection of the EU's external European borders.

President Rumen Radev said this today

Rumen Georgiev Radev is a Bulgarian military man, major general from the reserve.

Former commander of a working meeting in the presidential institution, which was attended by Prime Minister Gulab Donev, Deputy Prime Minister for Public Order and Security and Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerdzhiev, Director of the National Investigation Service Borislav Sarafov, Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Chief Commissioner Petar Todorov and the heads of the security services, announced the press office of the head of state. 

Radev: Bulgaria will definitely join Schengen next year

The head of state emphasized that for the first time our country has a clear deadline for joining the Schengen area, which will happen in October 2023 at the latest, but this process can and should be accelerated.

Schengen membership will facilitate the travel of Bulgarian citizens to our EU neighbors, significantly shorten the time for the transport of goods, promote tourism and significantly improve the investment climate in Bulgaria.

During the meeting, measures were highlighted to strengthen the partnership between the institutions responsible for the protection of the Bulgarian borders with the security services of the neighboring countries and the fight against crimes related to illegal migration, improving the coordination between the Bulgarian institutions combating crime, to reveal the networks and channels for the transport of illegal migrants on the territory of the country, as well as for the improvement of the technical monitoring of the external European borders for Bulgaria and the improvement of the equipment and equipment of the Bulgarian border police.

Rumen Radev

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