The Presidency of the EU provides an additional incentive for Bulgaria to achieve better results on some benchmarks related to EU funds adoption and reforms, for instance, in the area of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism.
Importantly, the rotational Presidency Bulgaria is going to have for six months will be an opportunity to focus the national political and civic attention on the European politics and EU’s agenda.
This is of great importance to a country like Bulgaria, which remains in the periphery of the European political debate.
