Round Table Conference on the European Union, West Balkans, Bulgaria

Almost a century ago – on 10 October 1920 at the opening of the Balkan Near East Institute which was the name of the Free University of Political and Economic Sciences at that time, the predecessor of UNWE, its founder and first Rector Prof. Stephan Bobchev determined as “an important specifics” of the new university the establishment of “academic relation and mutual acquaintance and study of the Balkan countries”, pointed out in his Greeting speech the Rector Prof. Stattev. He outlined that the “important specifics” is developed and enriched by the UNWE for already 100 years.