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Flags of NATO, Bulgaria, European Union at the Military club of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, Bulgaria sought economic cooperative arrangements with Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain, as well as military cooperation with Romania, Greece, and Turkey. A start was made on easing tensions with ...
While Bulgaria now had no land claims against the Ottomans, it resented Serbia, Greece and Romania (allies of Britain and France) for seizing lands with majority Bulgarian population. Bulgaria signed an alliance with Germany and Austria in September 1915 that envisioned that Bulgaria would dominate the Balkans after victory in the war. [1] [2]
See also: Romanians in Belgium and Belgians in Romania Bulgaria: 1879-07-28: See Bulgaria–Romania relations. Bulgaria has an embassy in Bucharest. Romania has an embassy in Sofia. Both countries became members of the European Union on 1 January 2007. Croatia: 1941-05-13: See Croatia–Romania relations. Croatia has an embassy in Bucharest.
During the 20th century, Bulgaria and Romania both fought on the side of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. In the cold war, both countries became communist states under the influence of the Soviet Union, but Romania formally left the sphere in 1964. The communist regimes of both countries ultimately collapsed in 1989.
The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains in order to recover the territories lost in the Second Balkan War and World War I, as well as gain other lands with a significant ...
The Bulgarian government aligned itself with Germany and Austria-Hungary, even though this meant also becoming an ally of the Ottomans, Bulgaria's traditional enemy. Bulgaria could no longer hold claims against the Ottomans, but Serbia, Greece, and Romania (allies of Britain and France) still held lands the Bulgarians perceived as Bulgarian.
Another important reason was the strong opposition from the great powers to a Bulgarian–Romanian union that occurred on several occasions, [81] such as in 1878 and 1879, when Austria-Hungary and Russia objected to the nomination of Romanian candidates for the Bulgarian throne; [31] in 1886 and 1887, when the same countries opposed the ...
In case Romania or Greece attacked Bulgaria or its allies without provocation, Germany would agree to Bulgarian annexation of the lands lost to these countries by the Treaty of Bucharest of 1913, and to a rectification of the Bulgarian-Romanian border as delimited by the Treaty of Berlin of 1878. In addition, Germany and Austria-Hungary ...