Airbus to Open Parts Plant in Bulgaria's Plovdiv
An aircraft parts factory of French civil aircraft giant will operate in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city, starting within a year, French Ambassador Eric Lebédel said last week.
Bulgarian MEP Peter Kouroumbashev and French Ambassador Eric Lebédel traded remarks on Twitter on Wednesday evening after the latter referred to an interview of the MEP as an "illustration of the "whining periphery syndrome"."
His comment regarded the words of Kouroumbashev who in an interview compared the model of a two-speed EU to apartheid, arguing such projects would end up destroying the union.
"Wake up, friends! You are going to have the @eu2018bg," Lebédel wrote, in a reference to the rotating EU presidency due from January 2018.
Illustration of the "whining periphery syndrom". Wake up, friends! You are going to have the @eu2018bg . https://t.co/5BsKsr5dsN
— Eric Lebédel (@EricLebedel) March 6, 2017
But the Bulgarian MEP retorted that the ambassador's own remarks illustrated a "syndrome of first class arrogance or the arrogance of the "first class."
He went as far as to argue that the previous French envoy, Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes, "would never allow himself such language."
Whining #periphery? That's syndrom of first class arrogance or the arrogance of the "first class", Mr. Representative of the very #center? https://t.co/blhzJARjhU
— Peter Kouroumbashev (@PKouroumbashev) March 7, 2017
Daily 24 Chasa later quoted Lebédel as saying: "Since I am in Bulgaria, I have come across many statements that Bulgaria lies in the periphery, whereas it is the other way around - Bulgaria is becoming ever more central to Europe and this fact has to be fully realized, especially in light of the forthcoming Bulgarian presidency of the EU."
The Ambassador argued that if the adjective "whining" was removed, the rest was aimed at provoking a rational discussion about Bulgaria's role in the EU.
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