A meeting of the heads of the Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC) is held in Sofia on 22nd of January.
The forum was opened by Bulgarian National Assembly Chairperson Tsveta Karayancheva.
Expressing the fundamental values of the EU, equality and freedom, COSAC is also a guarantor of the participation of the citizens of the Union in the democratic control over the European institutions regarding the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, she said.
European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said that the EU must respond to global challenges and solve the problem of the unfulfilled promise of convergence.