Eric Rubin

"Bulgaria does not meet the requirements for visa waiver," said US Ambassador to Bulgaria Eric Rubin in an interview with NOVA.

''Bulgaria can play the role of mediator for the overall movement of the Balkans towards Europe.'' This is what the American ambassador Eric Rubin has said during his visit in Bulgaria, talking with the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, according to bTV. 

In his words, Washington supports the idea that our Euro-Presidency will be focusing on countries in the region.

Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev and Minister of Energy Temenujka Petkova held a meeting with Israeli Ambassador to Bulgaria Iri Lilian in the framework of the energy security strategy for supply and diversification of gas sources and routes, the government's press service said, quoted by BGNES.

''My opinion is that Bulgaria's interest is to help Macedonia to enter the North Atlantic Pact'', Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said today during the first parallel public discussion with Bulgaria and USA of the Atlantic Club about the new scale of Euro-Atlantic solidarity in the context of Brexit and the answer of Europe, reported BGNES.

US Ambassador to Bulgaria Eric Rubin has said he will do everything so that President Donald Trump visits the country, according to the Bulgarian National Radio.

At a business forum, after inviting Bulgarian companies to invest more in the US, he has said:

"I cannot promise he will come. What I can only do is try, and I will do it," the BNR quotes him as saying.

Abolition of visas for Bulgarians travelling to the USA cannot be expected soon, stated on Darik radio the US Ambassador to Bulgaria Eric Rubin.

Rubin explained that the procedures for getting a visa will become easier but a full abolition is not in sight.

The United States' Ambassador to Sofia will not be removed after Donald Trump enters the White House, the diplomatic mission says.

Eric Rubin will retain his office, 24 Chasa and Standart daily newspapers quote the embassy as saying.

The statement comes after Trump promised to remove diplomats appointed under Barack Obama's administration.

Bulgaria needs ambitious goals from increasing living standards to developing a good security environment, reforming education and fighting shady elements of power, leading presidential candidate Rumen Radev has said.

The US-Russia dilemma of Bulgaria is a false one and Bulgarians should disbelieve anyone telling them they are facing this choice, US Ambassador Eric Rubin has argued.

It is a mistake to state that Bulgaria cannot have good relations with Russia if it has such ties with the EU and NATO of which it is a member, Rubin has said in an interview for private bTV broadcaster.

The new US ambassador to Bulgaria, Eric Rubin, arrived in Sofia on Wednesday with his wife Nicole Simmons.

One of his first tasks was to greet the followers of the embassy's Twitter account.

Rubin also appeared in a short video, greeting the Bulgarian people and expressing his desire to work towards a strong and productive partnership between Bulgaria and the United States.