The her defensive costs intends to increase Bulgaria At 3.5% of its GDP by 2032, as Defense Minister Atana Zaprianov said today (3.6.2025) during a conference on opportunities for deepening defense cooperation between Bulgaria and Germany.
“To ensure the success of our investment programs in the defense sector, our expenditure amounted to 2% of GDP target in 2024. However, this is no longer enough and we must decide to increase our defense spending at least 2.5-3%, with a goal of reaching 3.5% to 20% to 20% of GDP. Minister of Defense of Bulgaria.
“Russia is the most serious and immediate threat to Euro -Atlantic security. We have to prepare to manage long -term instability. This is of particular importance to our regional security in the Black Sea and Southeast Europe. To deal with today’s and tomorrow’s dangers and threats, we have focused on strengthening our national defense in the context of NATO’s collective planning and the EU’s joint security and defense policy, “the minister explained.
To build and improve the country’s defense abilities, the Ministry of Defense seeks to cooperate with the Bulgarian defense industry and is ready to support it, Zaprianov added.
Bulgaria will aim to use EU mechanisms to create greater budgetary flexibility for defense spending while maintaining a conservative fiscal policy in view of the expected accession to the eurozone, Zaprianov said (2.6.2025). Bucharest ”(B9) – that is, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia – held in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Source: RES – EIA