Bulgaria Stands Behind Hungary and Against Brussels

At a working meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, convened at the request of Deputy Prime Ministers Krasimir Karakachanov and Valeriy Simeonov and the Environment Minister Neno Dimov, the Bulgarian Government has decided to draft a position in defense of Hungary and against the proposal to initiate a criminal proceedings against it under Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union. The decision was taken unanimously by the members of the Cabinet, Deputy Prime Minister Karakachanov announced after a briefing, in which Simeonov and Neno Dimov participated.

There is no formal announcement of this decision by the Council of Ministers, as the explanation is that it was not taken at a regular but at an operational meeting, and at the moment represents a unanimous opinion of the cabinet members to work towards the preparation of a position. Still, there is no draft of such a position to be shaped as a decision, MS said. In essence today's decision is that the Council of Ministers will start a procedure for drawing up a position of Bulgaria for the relevant formats of the Council of the European Union, where it will reflect that Bulgaria does not support the proposal of a criminal procedure against Hungary under Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union. This criminal procedure begins when it is established that there is a real risk in a Member State of a serious breach of the underlying principles on which the EU is built.

Instead of information from the Council of Ministers, a message from VMRO came to the media, to which Karakachanov's report was attached to the Council of Ministers, on the basis of which the decision was made. The report contains little more than a page and a half of the reasons that it is in Bulgaria's interest to support...

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