The two-day visit of the Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Assembly of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Atanas Zafirov to Germany has ended. He was a guest at the congress of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), during which he also held a series of talks with representatives of the German government, the BSP press center reported.
At the meetings with the newly elected co-chairs of the SPD, Lars Klingbeil, Vice Chancellor and Minister of Finance in the new coalition government of Germany, and Berbel Bass, Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Zafirov emphasized the important role of the SPD in the common European socialist family and wished a successful mandate and successful participation in the governance of the country.
The Deputy Prime Minister also held a working meeting with the Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany, Boris Pistorius, at which specific joint state projects in the field of defense, the role of the BSP in the normalization of the political environment in Bulgaria, and common efforts to prevent nationalist and extreme populist parties from entering the public life of the countries were discussed. The meeting took place in an extremely cordial atmosphere, with Minister Pistorius accepting Zafirov's invitation to visit Sofia as soon as possible.
Within the framework of the congress, Atanas Zafirov and the Chairman of the Youth Union of the Bulgarian Socialist Party Gabriel Valkov met with the leadership of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation - President Martin Schulz, Executive Director Sabine Fandrich and the Head of the Bulgarian Office Jacques Paparo. The parties expressed satisfaction with the joint work and discussed the deepening and continuation of projects in the field of training, civic education and the development of social democracy.
At all meetings, the hosts expressed satisfaction with the pro-European course of development of Bulgaria and the active participation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party in this process.