Former BSP Bulgarian Economy and Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov called the actions of the authorities of the Balkan republic “Euro-Atlantic subservience, betrayal of national interests.”
“I protest against the hypocrisy of the managers, who literally yesterday declared the development of Bulgarian nuclear energy as a strategic priority, and today they call the project of the Belene nuclear power plant stuck in a swamp,” Atanas Zafirov, one of the leaders of the BSP. , he emphasized.
“We were the energy center of the Balkans and now we will become a country that will buy electricity from the states we sold it to,” said socialist Ivan Petkov.
The decision on the expediency of abandoning the power units, the cost of which is estimated at at least 600 million euros each, in favor of Kiev was made on the day of the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Sofia on July 6 this anus. The country’s authorities hope to receive compensation for the transfer of reactors from European funds to support Ukraine.
