"We are very proud – Gergana and I – that this idea, which started as a joke – turned into a very solid Bulgarian contribution to the European technological process. Our battle for this initiative started in Bulgaria, went through the European Commission, the world GSM organization, the World Telecommunications Union of the UN, and ended with the European Commission's decision to introduce the common chargers starting in 2011. I am glad that a Bulgarian engineer and inventor – Ivan Batsarov – approached me and Gergana with the idea to patent elements of this common mobile phone charger, which is what we did, and the patent is Bulgarian."

Bulgaria's former Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, who is now the President of the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria, tells the 24 Chasa Daily. The idea for a common mobile phone charger originated in Bulgaria a few years ago, with Solomon Passy and his wife, Gergana Passy, former Bulgarian Minister of EU Affairs in the same Cabinet

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