Bulgaria’s ambition is to have gas interconnector with Serbia by 2017
Bulgaria’s hope is that the gas interconnector with Serbia will be completed no later than 2017, according to Dragomir Stoinev, economy and energy minister in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government.
Stoinev was speaking after talks on September 30 2013 with Serbian energy, development and environmental protection minister Zorana Mihajlović.
According to Stoinev, Belgrade thought that the interconnector could be completed as early as the end of 2016.
Stoinev said that the first section of the interconnection would be financed under the current EU’s Competitiveness Operational Program, while the second section would receive funding from the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020.
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