Between 1st and 3rd February this year in the town of Ulm, Germany, the Minister of Regional Development and Public Rosen Plevneliev led by a delegation which included Deputy Minister Liliana Pavlova, Deputy Minister Ekaterina Zechariah, and Valerie Naydenov and Belin Mollov will participate in international conference development of the European Union Strategy for the Danube region, said the regional ministry. This new initiative, coordinated by the European Commission, brings together the efforts of countries in the Danube Basin, to accelerate the processes of economic and social cohesion as well as extending the territorial cooperation. Bulgaria agrees that the partnership between the countries of the Danube region involved in the Strategy is key to successful and purposeful achievement of the priorities for improving competitiveness, the development of innovation, energy efficiency and territorial cohesion. Danube Strategy will be implemented in all regions of the Danube in the period 2014-2020 year. Present in Works has received over 250 proposals related to the development of the Danube region in the field of transport. Some of them will be funded before 2014, says Minister Plevneliev.
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