„For our partners from the outside, we look extremely unstable and unique. We should apply for the “Guinness“ – in a very short period of time, so many elections were held without results”, commented on the domestic political situation in the program “Crossing Point” hosted by Anna-Maria Konova and the former interior minister Rumiana Bachvarova.
„In any case, I hope he has common sense. There is still no work to find a way out of the situation. Now everyone is measuring their muscles. The debates resembled a family scandal, she pointed out.
The former interior minister also commented on the lifting of the Austrian veto on our full accession to Schengen. “This decision is expected and has a much greater degree of probability after Bulgaria enters Schengen by air. A decision was expected by the end of this year or early next year. It's nice that they surprise us with an earlier date. I hope that by the beginning of the new year we will fully enter Schengen, said Bachvarova.
„The main stimulus came from the Hungarian presidency, which ends at the end of December and wants to show results. This change in our status has suffered a lot, she stressed.
„It's still 2011. we were ready to enter Schengen. Then the government made a lot of efforts. Cabinets then – not that much, but they did enough to meet the criteria to the best of their ability. It would not be fair if only one were to be crowned with the badge of success, for I have not met with any other subject on which there is such national agreement and general will to achieve this wholeness. This is something extremely good for Bulgaria,”, Bachvarova was categorical.
„The most important thing for Bulgarian citizens is that when they pass through the borders of Greece and Romania, they will not wait at border control. This will create the feeling of how big Europe is, and we belong to it,”, she pointed out.