Bulgaria just started its first EU Council Presidency. The country seeks to meet Europe’s challenges by preserving and strengthening unity and solidarity amongst the Member States.

Its declared priorities for the presidency are finding compromises in the areas of migration, the future of the EU cohesion policy, moving forward with the digital single market, as well as fighting youth unemployment. Furthermore, it will be interesting to observe how Bulgaria will bring in the Balkan perspective in order to mend in the area of migration policy and pre-accession talks with the Western Balkan countries.

How will Bulgaria, which in many aspects is still seen as the ‘problem child’ of the EU, handle the presidency? Is the country well equipped in order to steer through EU’s troubled waters when it comes to the Brexit negotiations?

Join us for our Liberal Breakfast together with our distinguished speaker, in order to discuss these and other questions.

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Registration & Light Breakfast: 8:15h
Event: 8:30 – 9:30h
Venue: ALDE Party HQ, Rue d’Idalie 11, 1050 Brussels

Welcome:

Hans van Baalen, MEP
ALDE Party President

Speaker:

Ilhan Kyuchyuk, MEP
ALDE, Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Bulgaria)

Iskra Mihaylova, MEP
ALDE, Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Bulgaria)

Chair: Anguelina Piskova, Chief correspondent, Bulgarian National Radio in Brussels

Kindly REGISTER for this event by 30 January 2018 via THIS FORM. Please note that you will be forwarded to a Google Drive sheet. Should you wish to register with us directly please send an email to [email protected]. Photographs will be taken at the event for use on the FNF website, social media, in the press, FNF marketing materials, and other publications. By entering this event, you consent to FNF photographing and using your image and likeness.