Committee of Permanent Representatives

BRUSSELS - Ambassadors of EU member states will on Monday continue a debate on Serbia's request to open Cluster 3 in its EU accession talks and on General Affairs Council draft conclusions on enlargement, sources in Brussels have told Tanjug.

Concern is growing in European capitals regarding the peacemaker role that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has assumed during his visits to Ukraine, Russia, and China. Diplomatic sources in Brussels reported this to Bulgarian media "Club Z".

Greece is adopting a firmer stance concerning the conditions for Albania's entry into the European Union over the case of Fredi Beleri, an ethnic Greek elected as the mayor of Himare in southern Albania during the municipal elections on May 14 though prevented from being sworn in due to an arrest on alleged vote-buying two days earlier.

During the meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the EU /COREPER/, which took place yesterday, there was a discussion on the preparation of the upcoming summits on July 23-24, 2022.

Greece and France briefed the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union (COREPER) on the signing of the Security and Defence Treaty

The Government approved the Bulgarian position for the COREPER II (Committee of Permanent Representatives) meeting, in the format of the Conference of Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, to be held on 11 March 2020 in Brussels.

Former head of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi Thursday talked about the assault on the justice system, carried out not only through comments in the public space, but also through repeated attempts to change the legislation and stressed the importance for Justice to continue to resist and do its job in a professional way.

The Committee of Permanent Representatives in the EU, COREPER, has voted in favour of Laura Codruta Kovesi as its preferred candidate for the new position of Chief EU Prosecutor, clearing the path for the European Parliament to confirm Romania's former chief anti-graft prosecutor in the post. The parliament has repeatedly expressed support for her.

The National Liberal party (PNL) MEPs will intensify the lobbying for resuming the procedure of appointing the EU Chief Prosecutor, given that the odds of the Romanian candidate to this position - Laura Codruta Kovesi - have improved, the Liberals' leader, Ludovic Orban, said on Monday.

Bulgaria voted on Wednesday(20/02/2019) against the first European public prosecutor Laura Koveshi, a source close to the diplomatic circles in Brussels told the Sega newspaper.