Bulgaria doesn't need ambassadors

According to Bulgaria's new head of government Boyko Borisov, up to 90 percent of the people who currently work for the Bulgarian foreign ministry should either be pensioned off or resign their posts abroad because they worked for the secret services under the socialist dictatorship. The daily Sega delivers an ironic criticism of the proposal: "Bulgaria can get along quite nicely without its ambassadors because it doesn't have a foreign policy to speak of anyway. In all matters that go beyond the European Union, including the Balkans policy, the rule is 'Whatever Washington says'. Regarding the EU we hardly need a foreign policy ... . Moreover once the Lisbon Treaty comes into effect the process of establishing a European foreign service destined to be the nucleus of an EU foreign ministry will begin. In this context it should be at the discretion of each state to renounce its rights and allow other states to represent it. That's what will happen anyway if we dismiss all our ambassadors. [Those rights] will simply be appropriated by others."

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