{"id":9865,"date":"2018-01-11T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T12:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=9865"},"modified":"2018-01-11T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T12:49:24","slug":"the-official-opening-of-the-bulgarian-eu-presidency-tonight-in-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/the-official-opening-of-the-bulgarian-eu-presidency-tonight-in-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Official Opening of the Bulgarian EU Presidency Tonight in Sofia \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9868\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44.png\" alt=\"Bulgarian-EU-Presidency\" width=\"1187\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44.png 1187w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44-768x127.png 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44-1024x170.png 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44-600x100.png 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44-260x43.png 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44-50x8.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chrome_2018-01-11_13-06-44-150x25.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1187px) 100vw, 1187px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he official Opening ceremony for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU will be held tonight, at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia. The ceremony will start with the national anthem performed by the Children&#8217;s Choir of the Bulgarian National Radio. Authentic Bulgarian folklore music \u00a0and \u00a0the anthem of the EU will also be part of the opening ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bulgarian President Rumen <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radev<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will speak at the ceremony. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI believe in Bulgaria&quot; &#8211; &quot;\u0412\u044f\u0440\u0432\u0430\u043c \u0432 \u0411\u044a\u043b\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0438\u044f&quot; says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JunckerEU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JunckerEU<\/a> ahead of the opening of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EU2018BG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EU2018BG<\/a> in Sofia. Get to know the country presiding over the Council of the EU for the next six months \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iXRXB3JzEY\">https:\/\/t.co\/iXRXB3JzEY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/raxzzdH0Er\">pic.twitter.com\/raxzzdH0Er<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; European Commission (@EU_Commission) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EU_Commission\/status\/951355584372199424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The calendar of cultural, political and live-streamed events, that will take place during the \u00a0Bulgarian Presidency (January -June, 2018) is available at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eu2018bg.bg\/bg\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">official website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EU2018BG?src=hash\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#EU2018BG<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For additional news go to the Daily News section at the European Commission website <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_MEX-18-121_en.htm#3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Opening ceremony for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU will be held tonight, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}