Bulgaria’s establishment collapsed under its own corruption and popular discontent just as it was about to get accepted into the Eurozone
A kid isn’t totally to blame when it acts like a lunatic in public. Particularly when you take a good look at the parents. Such is the case of the Bulgarian establishment – the European Union’s latest “foster kid” on the verge of being fully adopted into the family, despite being in the middle of a full-blown public meltdown.
Bulgaria is supposed to join the EU’s common euro currency zone, the Eurozone, on January 1, 2026, completely integrating into the bloc. And the country’s officials have had since January 2007, when it was accepted as a member of the EU, to get their act together and stop greasing each other’s palms like it’s a schoolyard game. Ostensibly, that’s why these things are done incrementally. Because it takes time to teach politicians that public cookie jars are not meal stations.
Brussels has had 19 years to teach these basic lessons. But since “Queen” Ursula von der Leyen and her merry band of Eurobozos are big on optics and lectures but not so much on actual discipline and results, that didn’t happen.
So just as Bulgaria is supposed to integrate into the EU economy as the newest paragon of stability, it turns out that the government took one look at the latest protest action in the streets and basically hit the self-destruct button.
“Our coalition met, we discussed the current situation, the challenges we face and the decisions we must responsibly make,” Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said while stepping down with his coalition government. “Our desire is to be at the level that society expects.”
That would be ground level. After a swan dive.
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