On December 14 at 7:00 p.m., in the “Galeria” Hall of the National Students’ House, a discussion with Todor Tagarev, Yordan Bozhilov, and Velizar Shalamanov took place on the current state of Bulgaria’s defense and its future within the Alliance and the EU.🇧🇬🇪🇺
The topics covered included logistics, equipment, and the unmanned future of Bulgaria and its allies. 🛤
About the participants:
Prof. Todor Tagarev – Bulgarian military expert and long-serving official in Bulgaria’s defense system. Minister of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria from March 13 to May 29, 2013.
Yordan Bozhilov – founder and first chair of the Sofia Security Forum. Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria from March 9 to June 22, 2022.
Velizar Shalamanov – former adviser to the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on national security and defense. From 2009 he was Director for Nations Cooperation at the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency. In 2012 he was appointed Director for Customer Cooperation at the merged NATO Communications and Information Agency. From August 6 to November 7, 2014, he was Minister of Defense in the caretaker government of Georgi Bliznashki.
