Over 1.6 Billion Leva to Support Young Farmers and Rural Development in Bulgaria
The Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture is set to allocate over 1.6 billion leva to support young and new farmers as well as to invest in rural infrastructure
Only Prime Minister Boyko Borisov can demand my resignation, the country's Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov declared on Tuesday, according to local media.
A perfectly logical statement, since Naydenov was personally appointed by Borisov – and Borisov was apparently appointed by God.
Needless to say, this situation is rather disappointing for Bulgaria's grain producers to whom Borisov's centrist-right GERB lied by signing a bogus financial frame a month before the recent presidential and local elections.
But perhaps the grain producers should try to understand that Naydenov and his boss have other issues on their agenda:
"I am also the Minister of fish," the Agriculture Minister pointed out in an interview on Tuesday, thus trying to divert from the agriculture protests topic. (December 6 marks the holiday of fishermen and sailors in Bulgaria.)
Naydenov has obviously employed Borisov's manner of expressing himself so simply that he is hardly understandable – but what he tries to say that other agriculture sectors are important, too.
The Agriculture Minister (and the cabinet) may be right in refusing to let the grain producers collect so many millions of BGN in times of crisis. However, he seems quite wrong about one major thing:
Under no circumstances is he allowed to lie to people. It is neither the Prime Minister nor the fish he is supposed to serve.
If we look at history, there are not many cases in which relations between Bulgaria and Russia at the state level were as bad as they are at the moment.
The term “Iron Curtain” was not coined by Winston Churchill, but it was he who turned it into one of the symbols of the latter part of the twentieth century by using it in his famous Fulton speech of 1946.
Hardly anything could be said in defense of the new government's ideological profile, which is quite blurry; at the same time much can be disputed about its future "pro-European" stance.
Look who is lurking again behind the corner – the tandem of Advent International and Deutsche Bank, respectively the buyer of the Bulgarian Telecom Company in 2004 and the advisor of the Bulgarian government in the sweetest deal of the past decade, seem t
We have seen many times this circus which is being played out during the entire week and it only shows one thing - there is no need of a caretaker government in Bulgaria.
You have certainly noticed how many times President Rosen Plevneliev used the phrase “a broad-minded person” referring to almost every member of his caretaker government.
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