Will Bulgaria Have a Stable Government After Yet Another Election in June? Our Readers Have Spoken
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Russia is still angry at Bulgaria after the latter "canceled South Stream", a Russian consumers' union official has said.
His comments come a day after Moscow banned imports of all food products that have a phytosanitary certificate prepared in Bulgaria on suspicions that the documents are "fake".
Evgeniy Myasin, who co-chairs the union, is heard telling reporters of Pravda.ru website in a phone conversation:
"They [Bulgarians] tried to explain: We didn't just ban, we suspended [South Stream], because one has to understand there are certain requirements of the European Union that might be violated." But all of this is just excuses."
Surprisingly, however, Pravda.ru begins its report with the claim that "earlier Sofia admitted the documents signed by it were counterfeited" - a statement Bulgaria has never made officially.
Moscow has been voicing over the past months it concerns that many EU member states are trying to go around a ban on food products imports introduced last August by labeling goods made in member states as for example Mexican or Brazilian.
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Brazen Bulgarian gangs "terrorise the elderly and rob them over their life savings with increasingly aggressive phone scams nettling millions of euros," according to an AFP story.
The prospect of US President Donald Trump's moving closer to Russia has scrambled the strategy of "balancing East and West" used for decades by countries like Bulgaria, the New York Times says.
Bulgarians have benefited a lot from their EU membership, with incomes rising and Brussels overseeing politicians, according to a New York Times piece.
German businesses prefer to trade with Bulgaria rather than invest into the country, an article on DW Bulgaria's website argues.
The truth about Bulgaria and Moldova's presidential elections is "more complicated" and should not be reduced to pro-Russian candidates winning, the Economist says.
President-elect Rumen Radev "struck a chord with voters by attacking the status quo and stressing issues like national security and migration," AFP agency writes after the presidential vote on Sunday.
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