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Former President Stoyanov: It is Scary When Bulgaria's NATO, EU Membership Is Questioned

Dimitrina Solakova, Nikolay Trifonov
Former President Stoyanov: It is Scary When Bulgaria's NATO, EU Membership Is Questioned
Former President Stoyanov: It is Scary When Bulgaria's NATO, EU Membership Is Questioned
Petar Stoyanov, president of Bulgaria from 1997 to 2002, speaking at a discussion on "The Hague 2025: The Horizon for NATO and the Bulgarian Vision", Sofia, April 25, 2025 (BTA Photo/Nikola Uzunov)
Sofia,  
25.04.2025 12:43
 (BTA)

It is scary when Bulgaria's membership in NATO and the European Union is questioned, said Petar Stoyanov, president of Bulgaria from 1997 to 2002, here on Friday. He was speaking at an discussion on "The Hague 2025: The Horizon for NATO and the Bulgarian Vision", held to present the publication "Living Archives. National Archive of Memories of Bulgaria's NATO Accession Process."

"Someone should explain that we risk becoming the only EU member state that is increasingly acquiring characteristics of a third world country. Someone should finally tell our society that third world countries have individual achievements but failures are national," Stoyanov said.

In his words, in all decisive moments of human history, including the Bulgarian one, it is minorities or even individuals who have been the driving force behind decisions whose importance is subsequently assessed years later.

He noted that Bulgaria actually had a referendum on its NATO membership, because during his election campaign, for a year he kept repeating that if he became president, he would apply for NATO membership, which he did.

"We live in such a time that what lies ahead will prove far more interesting than what lies behind," Stoyanov added.

/RY/

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