Bulgaria's Commissioner: EU Must Expand Further

Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | March 17, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Commissioner: EU Must Expand Further The EU consumer affairs commissioner Meglena Kuneva thinks the block should continue enlarging. Photo by Kameliya Atanasova (Sofia Photo Agency)

The EU should continue enlarging so that to preserve the hopes of those countries, which want to access to it, the consumer affairs commissioner, Bulgarian Meglena Kuneva said at a lecture at the Sofia University on Friday.

The block's enlargement helps the implementation of a modernization and democratization models in each candidate-member country.

The European education yield to the Asian one and the Chinese economics grows by 10% annually, while some of the EU members refuse to open their labor market for other countries from the block.

"Europe should decide if it is ready to limit some of its social models and to reform its pensions' systems. As a result, the big family will mark an economic growth," Commissioner Kuneva explained.

Otherwise, data shows that the EU would not be able to pay the pensions of the elderly people, who considerably increase in number, Kuneva added.

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