I welcome the Bulgarian government for having adopted a national plan to increase defence spending to 2% of gross domestic product, President Rumen Radev said after a meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security, FOCUS News Agency reported. The institutions discussed the role of Bulgaria for the development of the EU’s common security and defence policy in the context of the Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the EU, in the first half of 2018. “We have agreed that the presidency of the EU Council is a major responsibility while providing significant opportunities for Bulgaria in several directions.
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