The refinery in Burgas must have a reliable owner who has the capacity to develop it. State intervention in its management is a "last, emergency option". This was stated by President Rumen Radev to journalists after visiting the 61st Stryamska Mechanized Brigade in Karlovo, BTA reports.
I am worried that the state, in its current administration, may lead us to the "Bulgartabac" scenario, said the head of state, commenting on the possibility of the state taking control of "Lukoil Neftochim Burgas".
This budget is more of an instrument for political survival and some tortured efforts to fit some figures into some framework, so as to demonstrate readiness for the eurozone. This is how the president commented on the draft Law on the State Budget for 2026. According to Radev, it lacks a vision, reforms and incentives for growth, but rather the opposite - suffocation of the economy and involvement in a debt spiral.
The head of state believes that it is disrespectful to put the Trilateral Council in a position to receive 400 pages of budget in the evening and to expect their opinion by noon the next day. I expect the dialogue to be conducted at an earlier stage, and not to be put before a fait accompli, with the argument that there is no time, he pointed out. The president added that it is important for him to see the final parameters after the vote in the plenary hall.
Asked for a comment on the "Magnitsky" sanctions, Radev said that the "Magnitsky" coalition is sinking under the weight of the big "D". Mr. Peevski has hired Mr. Borisov as a lawyer and he is getting entangled in his own versions - one to diplomats, one to the media and one to Peevski, the president believes. According to him, Borisov has expressed his lobbying thesis in support of Peevski and it is quite natural for the British Embassy to refute it. You cannot fool the whole world and this inflated bubble will burst sooner or later, Radev also said.