Test of Europeanness

Novinite Insider » EDITORIAL | January 16, 2007, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Test of Europeanness

By Ivelina Puhaleva

Besides the Cyrillic alphabet, banitsa, boza and rakiya, Bulgaria stands a good chance to open for the growing European diplomacy a unique field to perform - sooner than many have expected. The case of five European citizens on a death row in Libya has topped the agenda of first European Parliament plenary after Bulgaria joined the bloc with full rights.

The debate to unfold in the next days will fix eyes on the European parliamentarians, whose work has been in general perceived as tedious and burdensome. Whatever the general perceptions, Strasbourg is a rostrum Bulgaria and its freedom-striving medics have not had ever.

Just talking the case is unlikely to produce any significant results, but wording the will and appeal of all European citizens in a firm-voice resolution of the EP would be a profit not to be disregarded.

The diplomacy in Sofia now has an extremely extended kit of gears to influence the progress in the dialogue with Libya. It may press on Tripoli to return to the table of negotiations on the medics' fate just the same way as Tripoli has bargained its exit out of isolation.

The Megrahi case is entirely out of the point - in terms of accusations, viability of evidence, etc. Tripoli is reluctant on this card too - or it would have worded it directly to Sofia and Brussels. Yes, let's not forget the five convicts have added another contact address!

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