Italy and Bulgaria: Aspects and Dimensions of Bilateral Relations
Italy and Bulgaria: Aspects and Dimensions of Bilateral Relations

Author(s): Ivo Barzov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Geopolitics
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: political relations; Bulgaria; Italy; geopolitics
Summary/Abstract: Bulgaria and Italy share geopolitical characteristics and this is a precondition forestablishing common positions and grounds for broad bilateral cooperation. Both states managerespective sections of the external border of the European Union. Their membership in the European Union shapes their common policies. The current paper analyzes the development of Bulgarian-Italian relations and the conditions that influence them at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. A short historical overview of bilateral relations and policies of Bulgaria and Italy towards third countries illustrates the place and role that the two countries have or could have in regional politics and international relations.

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