EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn is expected pay a visit to Bulgaria on Thursday. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia News Agency)
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn is expected pay a visit to Bulgaria on Thursday, days after his critical report to the EU Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.
This became clear during the Brussels consultations of Euro-Affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva and Michael Leigh, head of EC Directorate-General for Enlargement.
Michael Leigh said that it was mainly technical issues about Bulgaria's preparations for acceding to the EU that were on top of the agenda of the meetings. The latest consultations in Brussels on the crucial monitoring report on Bulgaria continued for more than three hours.
Talking to the EU Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee at the beginning of April EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn said that Romania and Bulgaria's EU accession in 2007 is doable.
But in his presentation of both countries EU efforts, he made a clear distinction between the two, reserving his praise for Romania.
For the first time since the two Balkan countries were coupled in a package for the 2007 enlargement, Rehn said only one of the two countries might accede as planned.