Weather In Bulgaria On April 30: Cloudy with Rain and Thunderstorms Expected
Over the next 24 hours, much of the country will experience significant cloudiness, accompanied by widespread rain in Central and Eastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria's "Mom" Brussels and its "Dad" Washington had warned Bulgaria to suspend its funding if it allows South Stream on its soil, Russian news agency RIA wrote on Friday.
"Bulgaria has more than once changed its decision whether or not to let South Stream on its territory. "Mom" and "Dad" did not allow: Brussels and Washington threatened to suspend every kind of funding to the country. Subsequently the Bulgarian government changed, not without the participation of benefactors from the EU and the US," Svetlana Kholodnova argues a few days after Russia abandoned the South Stream pipeline project.
Sofia listened to its "patrons" regardless of the multi-billion profit it could have head, "renouncing" South Stream, she also believes.
Now that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov actually hopes the project will be renewed, "the train is gone, and it is not clear if Sofia could talk the project's "locomotive" - Russia - in returning back to work on it."
Kholodnova also wonders "why did Europe get so alarmed as soon as the project was stopped?" She hints Europeans could be afraid Kiev might turn out to be an "unfair" partner. Citing a recent analysis by rating agency Fitch which argued the pipeline was abandoned due to a dropping demand in Europe, the author says if Europe does not need South Stream, the same goes for Russia. "If you don't like it, don't eat it," Kholodnova concludes.
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The prospect of US President Donald Trump's moving closer to Russia has scrambled the strategy of "balancing East and West" used for decades by countries like Bulgaria, the New York Times says.
Bulgarians have benefited a lot from their EU membership, with incomes rising and Brussels overseeing politicians, according to a New York Times piece.
German businesses prefer to trade with Bulgaria rather than invest into the country, an article on DW Bulgaria's website argues.
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President-elect Rumen Radev "struck a chord with voters by attacking the status quo and stressing issues like national security and migration," AFP agency writes after the presidential vote on Sunday.
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