On June 27th, 2025, the Bulgarian-Romanian Historical Commission held its regular session. Professor Daniel Citirigă, Professor Daniel Cain, and Professor Roumiana Preshlenova welcomed the participants and the audience. In their addresses, they emphasized the importance of continuing a long academic tradition established by Romanian and Bulgarian scholars and outlined prospects for future cooperation.

This year, the theme of the conference was Monarchy in the Balkans Through the Centuries. Scholars from the Institute for South-East European Studies at the Romanian Academy, the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology, Institute of Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and the Faculty of History and Political Science at Ovidius University of Constanța presented their contributions — outcomes of comparative and interdisciplinary research. They discussed the role of monarchs and monarchy as an institution from the Middle Ages to the present day.