National Assembly Chair Tsetska Tsacheva, acting in her capacity as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), presented in Brussels on Monday the Bulgarian initiative for a permanent cooperation mechanism between the European Parliament (EP) and the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, the National Assembly said in a press release.
Tsacheva presented the initiate at a meeting of parliamentarians from Southeastern Europe ahead of an exchange of views within the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs on the situation in the region and inter-parliamentary cooperation.
Bulgaria proposes that the EP and the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly elaborate a joint document which would set the foundations of a sustainable and comprehensive permanent model of cooperation in areas of key importance for the region, such as: migration policies; integrated policy on judicial cooperation and combating transnational organized crime; economic management, competitiveness and connectivity in the spheres of energy and transport; monitoring of the implementation of energy efficiency policies and of the financial aid under EU funds and programmes; stronger democratic institutions and reform in the public administration; social development, education and science.
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