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"Our population scared off the migrants. Authorities were trying to behave like Europeans, but with people emanating such hatred this tsunami [the migrant influx] went around Bulgaria. They preferred to go via Macedonia ans Serbia and the reason is that we forged a bad image of ourselves in their eyes. We don't react to this like Europeans."
Andrey Raychev, co-owner of Gallup International - Bulgaria polling agency, has his own idea about why the flow of migrants bound for Germany goes via Macedonia and Serbia and not via Bulgaria.
"It is a time to pull people together ...
“We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form.
Let's not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it.
"Europe hasn't done its homework...
"North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test.
"There are a lot of killers.
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