The Bulgarian-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry sent a Declaration to the Prime Ministers of Northern Macedonia and Bulgaria, Zoran Zaev and Stefan Janev, expressing concern over the “negative impact on the business climate and trade relations between the two fraternal countries” and calling for overcoming political crisis and economic connection.
As the MIA correspondent from Sofia, who had insight into the content of the document, according to the Chamber, in the past 50 months since the signing of the Friendship and Cooperation Agreement on August 2, 2018, “none of the proposed measures in the White Paper has been implemented. and at the Round Table ”.
– Bulgarian and Macedonian citizens continue to pay for the most expensive roaming in the region, go through double border and customs control, can not use tax breaks when leaving a neighboring country and there is no cross-border infrastructure project, the Declaration states.
According to the Chamber, there is no transport, digital or infrastructure connection between Bulgaria and Northern Macedonia, and instead there is confrontation, administrative barriers, hostility and a lack of prospects for understanding and co-operation.
The Declaration calls on the governments of the two countries to overcome the political crisis and to work for economic co-operation in order to “establish a common European home in the Balkans, for business without borders, for cultural cohesion and understanding”.
