Bulgaria Celebrates Europe Day

Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | May 9, 2007, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Bulgaria Celebrates Europe Day Bulgaria marked Europe Day with a series of celebrations, most of them organized by the Info Center of the EU in Sofia. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

The Info Center of the European Union in Bulgaria is celebrating the Europe Day, May 9, with a series of events on Wednesday.

The celebrations started at 10:30 in the garden before center's building. The children, members of the National Association of the Bulgarian European School Clubs from around the country took part in it.

This year the celebrations for Europe Day are dedicated to the European year of equal opportunities. During the celebrations, the Info Center staged an exhibition of 30 photographers.

May 9 is celebrated as Europe Day since 1957. This year the EU celebrates its half century of existence.

In 1950 Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.

Today, the 9th of May has become a European symbol which, along with the flag, the anthem, the motto and the single currency (the euro), identifies the political entity of the European Union. Europe Day is the occasion for activities and festivities that bring Europe closer to its citizens and peoples of the Union closer to one another.

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