Bulgaria Loses Billions Annually Due to Delayed Schengen Membership, Warns Economy Minister
Bulgaria stands to lose approximately BGN 1 billion each year due to its continued exclusion from full membership in the Schengen area
Bulgaria in its current form does not make sense.
The three pillars of the state, instead of engaging into the customary checks-and-balances relationship, are barking at each other like stray dogs.
The executive is in the grip of a spate of no-confidence motions staged to increase the media visibility of the opposition in pre-election times and persuade the yet-undecided voters that the government is a failure.
The judiciary is plagued by high-level appointment scandals. In fact, nobody believes in the judiciary- the common people take it for granted that it applies double standards, the Interior Minister claims that it is incapable of proving confirmed criminals guilty, and the judiciary itself has started to see itself as an increasingly dependent system vulnerable to a range of outside influences.
As for the Parliament, the 240 MPs' major function has long been to highlight the importance of not being seen, of not being heard or of not being present, all the while pursuing strictly personal agendas.
At the moment, Bulgaria is struggling for bare survival. If it is to go beyond the state of Schengen hopefulness, it needs to prove that it is a coherent and cohesive state.
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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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