The situation in our country will not affect our entry into the Eurozone
The political situation in our country is not in the focus of attention of the European institutions. This is the thesis that EPP MEPs Iliya Lazarov (GERB-SDS) and Radan Kanev (PP-DB) united around in the studio of "Brussels 1" in Strasbourg.
"That elections in Bulgaria are held every six months to a year is something that colleagues have already become used to. There is even a little interdepartmental humor in the corridors of parliament. The focus is undoubtedly currently in Hungary, where there are protests of the same scale, with the difference that Orban's government is not resigning and where there are elections in the spring. It is expected that Orban will lose for the first time in 15 years," Kanev also emphasized.
He was categorical that the situation in our country will not affect our entry into the Eurozone.
Iliya Lazarov commented on some of the parallels that are drawn between the current protests and those in 1997. According to him, they are different because the protests back then were economic - "hunger protests".
"The current protests are of young people who want to be true Europeans. And our politics are extremely Ganyovian. The other day they fought in parliament - our domestic politics are very primitive and this is what drove the young people out the most", he added to Bulgaria ON AIR.
Ilia Lazarov admitted that the SDS, although part of the ruling coalition, did not approve the draft for "Budget 2026" and their members even participated in the protests.
"We forced many of the party's active members to accept this coalition in its current form, because we knew that the stakes were the Eurozone", he also pointed out.
"The big news of the last year is that Peevski has taken down the cards of the model with his arrogance and we now know what we are fighting against," Radan Kanev summarized. He also listed the necessary measures that, in his opinion, will improve the situation in our country.
The two also commented on other current topics of the week in the EP - military Schengen, a ban on Russian gas from 2027 and what the MERCOSUR agreement means for Bulgaria.