Ex Bulgarian PM Sergey Stanishev has slammed his successor Boyko Borisov for stating Bulgaria will demand sanctions for EU countries failing to obey deficit limits in response to being treated unfairly for the Schengen Area.

While on a visit in Croatia on Wednesday, Borisov said Bulgaria will be crying out laud over most EU states' failure to keep their budget deficits within the agreed 3% limit because it is being treated unfairly in its aspirations to join the Schengen Area.

"Borisov is only scaring off the crows in the field," Stanishev, the chair of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, stated Thursday paraphrasing a Bulgarian saying.

"In the recent years, Bulgaria has always conducted a policy of financial stability. What the Prime Minister is bragging with, he inherited from the previous Cabinet, which lowered the external debt from 24% of the GDP to 15% of the GDP. Now the external debt has grown by BGN 1 B in just a year, and it is the citizens who pay for that," Stanishev told reporters.

He believes that given the "statelessness" of the Borisov Cabinet, it is hard to expect a positive European Commission monitoring report under the post-accession Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) in July, because the EC is aware that the present Bulgarian government is only "beating the drum but producing no results."

"Has the GERB party achieved one single high-profile sentence after all of their government's showcase special operations in the past two years? Everything has been achieved based on the work of the previous government," Stanishev believes.

He further said his party BSP will alert the European Commission about conflict of interest suspicions regarding senior figures in the GERB party and its informal ally, the far-right Ataka party, which he claims have been covered up by Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

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