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MEP Radan Kanev: European institutions need to take a deeper look at Bulgaria

Радан Кънев
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A request for debates on the institutional crisis in Bulgaria has been submitted to the European Parliament, supported by 55 MEPs. Among the signatories are representatives of the EPP, the Liberals, as most of them are from the group of the Greens and from the group of the Socialists and Democrats. This was announced in an interview with BNR by Bulgaria'sMEP Radan Kanev, who stressed that "there is no political and human logic to hide from a debate on an obvious problem." 

According to Kanev, this is a pan-European problem and "allowing this level of disintegration of statehood in any country poses a very high risk to European prioritires". In his words, Europe is starting to spend much more public funds, and at the same time - there is no solution to the corruption problem. 
Kanev is convinced that European leaders and institutions are "obliged to direct their look to Bulgaria, because it could become a very bad example for Western European taxpayers."

Regarding GERB's proposal for creating a new constitution and convening of a Grand National Assembly, he said that Bulgarians "cannot afford to turn the Constitution into a subject of tricks for survival in politics and to allow the constitutional debate to divide society". 

Radan Kanev noted that this is "a very small, cheap hassle with a very big topic by a weak and scared leader." According to Kanev, this is yet another confirmation that Bulgaria is facing a very severe crisis and has "a great need for national unity, but Mr. Borissov cannot symbolize it".
"Borissov is not Todor Zhivkov, and GERB is not the Bulgarian Communist Party" Kanev said, adding that Bulgarians need unification not around one person and one party, but as a society.



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