What is the Stability Pact?

The Pact is a political initiative to encourage and strengthen co-operation between the countries of South Eastern Europe as well as to streamline existing efforts for assisting South Eastern Europe’s political, economic and security integration in Europe. The Pact does not implement the projects, which were placed under its auspices during the First regional Funding Conference of March 2000. It is an instrument to co-ordinate and possibly accelerate the projects of all its partners, such as the countries of south eastern Europe and their neighbours, the European Commission, NATO and OSCE, the International Financial Institutions, the member states of the European Union, other Stability Pact partners such as the United States, Russia, Hungary, Canada, Norway and Switzerland.

The Stability Pact has 3 Working Tables with 244 projects under the Quick Start Programme initiated in March 2000 (82% of these projects having started as of March 2001) with an overall financial engagement of 2.4 bio Euro for the region as a whole. This makes the Quick Start Package one of the fastest multilateral international aid packages ever. Working Table I is dealing with Democratisation & Human Rights, Working Table II with Economic Reconstruction, Development and Co-operation, Working Table III with Security (one Sub-table Security and Defence, one Sub-table Justice and Home Affairs).

Stability Pact activities in Bulgaria

Stability Pact Projects in Bulgaria , including regional projects with Bulgarian participation (see Annexes for details)

Working Table I

50 projects approx. 25 Mio Euro

Working Table II (Infrastructure)

3 projects approx. 300 Mio Euro

Working Table III

7 project categories, some of them regional see annexes