Bulgaria’s former Socialist prime minister has harshly criticized the current center-right government for “deliberately aiming to bring to a close” all large-scale energy project with Russian participation.

“This policy is a national treachery and serves foreign interests,” Sergey Stanishev said on Monday in the town of Dobrich.

“Nuclear energy is experiencing a renaissance across the world and a number of countries are launching their own projects for the construction of nuclear power plants,” said Stanishev.

He pointed out that the planned 2,000 megawatt Belene nuclear plant on the Danube River in Bulgaria is technologically very advanced and described as a “sin” any decision for abandoning it.

“The result of the current government policy is that in a few years time Bulgaria will have to import electricity from Turkey,” Stanishev said.

After it took office in July 2009, Bulgaria's new center-right government of the GERB party made it clear it was going to reconsider the country's participation in the three large-scale energy projects - South Stream gas pipeline, Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, and Belene Nuclear Power Plant.

Earlier this month Prime Minister Boyko Borisov unexpectedly said that his country was “giving up” on Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project decision, and that construction on the planned Belene nuclear power plant had been suspended.

In a dramatic twist that left all of Europe confused, Borisov retracted his statements shortly afterwards, saying that the Bulgarian government hasn’t made a final decision regarding the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and Belene nuclear power plant.

The statements have caused confusion and dismay in Russia.

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