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I'm not only truly excited about this development but I think it's revolutionary. The EC shyly noted that "this is the first time the European Union has proposed a treaty in support of an infrastructure project."
But it is fairer to describe it as the EU's first major independent push to reach the energy resources of Central Asia and the Caspian Region which could be the key to its energy independence.
This means at last going beyond wishful thinking that Nabucco will somehow – by itself – get natural gas from across the region spanning from Egypt to Kazakhstan without any political backing by the Union – empty declarations voiced so many times by European politicians, Bulgarian leaders included.
However, the Trans-Caspian pipeline system (part of the Southern Gas Corridor), the Caucasus and Central Asia stand for more than oil and gas as far as the EU is concerned. They are about it finally gaining some traction as a unified global entity.
In order to secure the Trans-Caspian pipeline, the EU will have to help Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan (Kazakhstan should be counted in, too, for all practical purposes) overwhelm the opposition of Russia and Iran, key Caspian littoral states – a daunting task!
If its otherwise discordant diplomacy (i.e. the 27 member states plus the External Action Services) manages to secure the Caspian pipe, that will be a win with the potential to transform the EU in the direction of a tighter common foreign policy. It could also signal the establishing of the Southern Caucasus – and especially Georgia, the key geopolitical link between the Caspian and Azerbaijan, and EU's Black Sea shores – as a special zone of EU interests, with all respective consequences for the Union on the world stage.
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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