On the sidelines of the European Council on Friday 29 June, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras signed a political statement on swift implementation of the Greece-Bulgaria gasinterconnection project (IGB).
The two countries stressed the need to begin the construction by the end of 2018 and make the interconnection operational by 2020, in time for the arrival of the first gas from the Caspian region to the European Union.
The IGB will connect...