site.btaMP Toshko Yordanov in Copenhagen: Bulgaria Will Protect Its Energy Independence

Bulgaria will defend its energy independence, said Toshko Yordanov, MP from There Is Such a People and deputy head of the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA). "We will protect our people, our jobs, and our power plants," he added, quoted in a statement from the party’s press center on Thursday.

Yordanov participated in the energy panel at the Interparliamentary Conference on the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy during the Danish Presidency of the European Union (EU).

According to Yordanov, Europe needs a Green Deal, but the deal we have now is unfair, unbalanced, and unstable.

He gave Bulgaria as an example and added that if the coal-fired power plants in the Maritsa basin are shut down, the country’s contribution to reducing European emissions will be 0.02%. But in return, Bulgaria will destroy 40% of its electricity production, Yordanov added.

According to Yordanov, this is not climate policy but national suicide.

Bulgaria has already achieved results. At the end of the last century, CO2 emissions were 105 million tonnes, and today they are 42 million, which is a 60% reduction. The big goal of the European Union in 5 years is a 55% reduction, he added.

Bulgaria has already done that. but it is expected to destroy its energy independence, its industries, and leave thousands of families without jobs. And all this in the name of very minimal results that will not change the global climate, he added.

Also attending were parliamentary social committee chair Denitsa Sacheva, defence committee chair Hristo Gadzhev, and MP Stanislav Anastasov of MRF-New Beginning.