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Austria to continue Balkan priorities of Bulgaria’s Presidency of Council of EU

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At a meeting in Vienna Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva discussed with Austria’s Federal Minister for the EU, Arts, Culture and Media Gernot Blümel topics related to Brexit, the new multiannual financial framework of the European Union, migration and protection of the EU external borders. Ministers Zaharieva and Blümel voiced satisfaction with the Bulgaria-Austria joint work on the European perspective of the Western Balkans. Ekaterina Zaharieva and Gernot Blümel agreed that the EU perspective of the Western Balkans guarantees stability and prosperity of this region. The topic is an important priority of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and Austria will continue this priority when it takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU after Bulgaria in the second half of 2018, Minister Gernot Blümel assured.




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