Bulgaria is the one convincing the European Union that there is a problem with the country's main law, Interior Minister Rumen Petkov has said.

"Sometimes we are just ready to assume a guilt we don't actually carry, like in the case of the Constitution and the doubts that it limits the judiciary," Petkov added. He maintained that there was no problem in the law and that Bulgarians were "insisting" on convincing the EU and themselves that there were faults in the amendments.

The EU membership was not a goal but a tool for improving life in Bulgaria, the minister added. He claimed that there were people in the country who were interested in creating chaos, because the recently cracked drug, weapons, and human-trafficking groups could not function in the Union.

Inevitably there are people among those groups that would do anything to stop Bulgaria's accession, he said.

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