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President Rumen Radev had not set foot at the  European Council since 2017and now found out that he had to watch his step in Brussels. His reflexes of  a soldier put him on the lookout because former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov had planted mines that could explode all of a sudden.

"We do not need any mediators. No one knows our history better than we do," Bulgarian President Rumen Radev told journalists on Thursday during his Rome visit with North Macedonian President Stevo Pendaovski with whom he said he had an in-depth conversation.

President Rumen Radev announced that he does not accept EU historians to get involved in the work of the N. Macedonian-Bulgarian historical commission, Bulgarian and Macedonian media wrote during his visit to Rome together with his Macedonian counterpart Stevo Pendarovski.

Bulgaria expects North Macedonia to offer a "roadmap" to resume talks regarding EU accession and find a solution to the issues between the two countries, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev explained after the meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Tuesday.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Francis Friday gave an audience to President Roumen Radev and an official Bulgarian delegation he heads for a traditional visit for the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and of Slav Letters, May 24.

In Brussels Bulgarian President Radev shared his thoughts on one of the main topics of the European Council - EU Green Deal.

The sharp increase in the ambitions of the European Union to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over 55% by 2030 puts Bulgaria in a difficult position.

The adopted EU goal of 55-percentreduction of greenhouse emissions by 2030 puts Bulgaria in a difficult situation, President Rumen Radev said in a doorstep statement prior to the European Council meeting in Brussels:

Presidents of Serbia and Bulgaria Outline Common Ambitions, Shared Spiritual Values

The Bulgarian minority in Serbia should be a "bridge of friendship between Serbia and Bulgaria," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Dimitrovgrad in southeast Serbia on Sunday.

North Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski and his Bulgarian counterpart, Rumen Radev, are traveling this week to Rome to pay joint tribute to Sts Cyril and Methodius, the ninth-century missionaries and founders of the first Slavic alphabet, who were sanctified there in the 19th century.

"The state of the spirit has never perished in Bulgaria and it is up to us to pass it on to the next generations," Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev told the media. Bulgaria's head of state Radev, this country's Vice President Iliana Yotova, Bulgaria's caretaker Premier Stefan Yanev and members of the caretaker government laid flowers to the monument of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius in f