Roland Hauser: There Is Still Room to Improve Bulgaria's Business Environment

There are practically no areas where we don't enjoy dense and excellent cooperation, but this does not mean there is no room for deepening relations, Austria's Ambassador to Bulgaria, H.E. Roland Hauser, has told Novinite.

Mr Hauser is among the nominees in our annual Personality in the News poll where voting will continue until February 20.
He has served as Austria's Ambassador to Bulgaria since September 2015.

His previous postings include ambassadorial missions to Gulf countries (Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain) and Kenya (2005-2009, also accredited to Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Seychelles, Comoros and DR Congo); He has also served as First Secretary to the Austrian Embassy in Beijing, Consellor and DCM at the embassy in Riyadh, and has held several other positions at the Austrian Foreign Ministry throughout his career that began back in 1986.

Your Excellency, which are the key bilateral issues between Bulgaria and Austria your Embassy is working on at the moment?

First of all, due to the very close relation between Austria and Bulgaria, we are permanently working on numerous projects, so to speak. In the political field, I would first refer to the preparations for our European Union Presidencies, both of us, which I would say are very high on the agenda. In commerce, we are very happy that the relations are very dense and also successful, but not all Austrian companies working in Bulgaria work without problems, so one of the main tasks of the embassy as well is to support companies to overcome difficulties they are facing in the country. And then I also should come to the cultural field, where we always have a variety of projects besides our two flagship projects which are the...