The day began with the lecture of Ms. Boriana Dimitrova, who is a manager Partner at “Alfa Research” sociology agency. She talked about the political parties and processes in the country through the prism of the forthcoming presidential elections and the external political situation.

The program continued with the topic “Perspectives for the development of Bulgarian economy – internal and external factors for economic growth” delivered by economist from Industry Watch Mr. Lachezar Bogdanov.

The accent of the second day of the National Program “Governing skills” was a lecture on the key threads ahead the national security of Bulgaria. Lecturers were Mr. Todor Tagarev, who is director of the Defence institute “Professor Tsvetan Lazarov” to the Ministry of Defence, and the journalists Mr. Petar Karaboev and Mr. Mohamed Halaf.