Bulgaria’s national parliamentary election in 2013 will be fought on issues of considerably greater moment than whether by then the country finally has joined the European Union’s Schengen visa zone, but as things look, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s government may not have that achievement to show and in turn, opposition parties may have a pothole to point to on the ruling party’s highway.
Previous governing parties have Nato and EU accession to point to, even if both those milestones were the achievements of a succession of administrations and had multi-party support.
Under the Borissov government, which took office in July 2009, ambitions of moving from the lev to the euro have had to be dropped, in fairness in a context which is beyond the current centre-right administration’s control.
There may have been a moment when Bulgaria (along with Romania, also of the EU’s Class of 2007) may have crossed smoothly into Schengen but, whenever that may have been, we all
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