Top Industrialists Lobby for Bulgaria's Early EU Accession

Business | September 9, 2002, Monday // 00:00

"I think Bulgaria is now very much on track to join the EU at the latest in 2007. ERT will continue to put pressure on the EU in favour of Bulgaria's early accession," Piet Steel, European Round Table Associate of Baron Daniel Janssen said in an interview for novinite.com. A member delegation of the European Round Table of Industrialists arrives in Sofia Thursday to meet the Bulgarian government. Baron Daniel Janssen, Chairman of the Board of Solvay, will lead the industrialists` delegation on September 12, 2002. This is the fourth annual meeting of the ERT with the Bulgarian government. "What I hear from my business colleagues in Bulgaria is certainly promising. The Simeon II government is showing a great openness towards and a willingness to talk with the business community. It has thus far demonstrated good will and good intentions to be "pro-business" and "pro-investment"," Steel added.
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