Politicians in Skopje believe that they will be able to enter the EU with the old Comintern-Yugoslav policy and then, from the position in the EU, impose their norms on us. We cannot allow that at all, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Krasimir Karakachanov said in an interview with BNT.

Karakachanov also pointed out that the Macedonian side is making a mistake and is wrongly looking at the European Union.

Their view of the European Union is quite simplistic. They imagine the EU as if it were the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia, where some federal states are arguing, and eventually they will go either to Belgrade to Comrade Tito or to the Soviet Union to Comrade Brezhnev and the Secretary General solves the problems. No, no, the European Union is not the Soviet Union. Every country here, whether smaller or larger, is equal, Karakachanov said in the interview, in the context of possible hopes from the Macedonian side that someone would put pressure on Bulgaria to unblock the country’s EU integration.