Bulgaria Gets EU Money over Russian Gas Supplies Crisis
Bulgaria in EU | January 7, 2009, WednesdayBulgaria is going to receive part of the EUR 5 B that the EU had set aside to tackle the global financial crisis in order to deal with the effects of the cutoff of gas supplies as a result of the Russia-Ukraine price dispute.
This became clear from a telephone conversation Wednesday night between the Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, and his Czech counterpart Mirek Topolanek, who is also the chairing the rotating EU Presidency, the press service of the Council of Ministers reported.
The EU money will be used for completing the so called "interconnection" - i.e. connecting Bulgaria's gas transit network with the networks of Greece and Romania.
Earlier on Wednesday Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov announced that the National Security Council had agreed the country had to be connected with the Turkey-Greece-Italy gas transit pipeline, which required the construction of 70 km of pipeline.
The Czech PM has informed Stanishev that the restoration of the Russian gas supplies for Bulgaria were a central theme of EU's negotiations with the Russian Federation and the Ukraine.
Topolanek also told his Bulgarian counterpart that EU's solidarity with Bulgaria, which was suffered the most from the termination of the Russian gas supplies for Europe, would be a major topic during the meeting of the Energy Ministers of EU members states scheduled to take place on Monday.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Stanishev also telephoned with the Bulgarian EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva Wednesday night. Kuneva informed the PM that the idea about independent monitoring of the gas transit that was put forth by Bulgaria had been fully adopted by the European Commission.
This became clear from a telephone conversation Wednesday night between the Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, and his Czech counterpart Mirek Topolanek, who is also the chairing the rotating EU Presidency, the press service of the Council of Ministers reported.
The EU money will be used for completing the so called "interconnection" - i.e. connecting Bulgaria's gas transit network with the networks of Greece and Romania.
Earlier on Wednesday Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov announced that the National Security Council had agreed the country had to be connected with the Turkey-Greece-Italy gas transit pipeline, which required the construction of 70 km of pipeline.
The Czech PM has informed Stanishev that the restoration of the Russian gas supplies for Bulgaria were a central theme of EU's negotiations with the Russian Federation and the Ukraine.
Topolanek also told his Bulgarian counterpart that EU's solidarity with Bulgaria, which was suffered the most from the termination of the Russian gas supplies for Europe, would be a major topic during the meeting of the Energy Ministers of EU members states scheduled to take place on Monday.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Stanishev also telephoned with the Bulgarian EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva Wednesday night. Kuneva informed the PM that the idea about independent monitoring of the gas transit that was put forth by Bulgaria had been fully adopted by the European Commission.
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