/ world today news/ Vice President Iliana Yotova accepted the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Security and Cooperation (MIS) in connection with the round table on “Peace, security and opposition to terror and organized crime today”.
During the meeting, the alarming data on drug trafficking and the exceptional threat to Bulgaria and Europe from the entry of synthetic drugs, as a result of the dramatic changes in Afghanistan, were presented, as well as data on human trafficking and the sharp increase in migration in the last year – with 66% across sea and land borders, and only for the Balkan route the growth is 110%.
The focus of the conversation was also the Schengen area and the need for an extremely strengthened foreign policy in bilateral relations in a multilateral plan. In this sense, Aurel Georgescu, police attaché of Romania in Bulgaria, during the accession processes of the two countries to the EU in 2006-2007, gave an example of the active joint actions of Bulgaria and Romania, as a result of which we were accepted as full members. In 2007, the two countries introduced the transit regime to be carried out at a single counter, as well as a checkerboard regime of control along the Danube River. In March 2007, Bulgaria and Romania signed a joint declaration with the EC for the entry of the two countries into Schengen in 2011 – an undertaking that failed.
Dragutin Mate, Minister of Internal Affairs of Slovenia 2004-2008, also took part in the meeting. Adv. Ljubomir Mihailovski, Minister of Internal Affairs of North Macedonia 2004-2006, Rumen Petkov, as Chairman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Vaska Penkova, security expert.
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