OECD

The current article focuses on the foreign economic priorities of the President of Republic of Bulgaria, with particular attention to the realities and opportunities of these priorities. The research focuses on three directions of foreign economic activity. The first one covers the acceleration of the application process for membership in the Eurozone as an imperative for Bulgaria to speed up its preparations for accession to the zone of the single European currency otherwise facing the risk of falling behind in the process of decision-making in the EU. It is an obvious fact that after the «Brexit» United Europe needs a new impetus to the process of European integration in order to boost and regain the trust of European citizens in the European institutions. The second priority is the preparation of Bulgaria for a full membership in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Bulgaria currently holds the status of “guest” in the structure of the Organization therefore not being able to actively contribute to more open market economy, democratic pluralism and respect for human rights in the international economic relations. As a third accent in the foreign economic activity is pointed out a more active participation in EU’s trade policy within the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which is a factor for sustainable and intelligent economic growth as well as for stimulating the Bulgarian economy.