Bulgaria as a black sheep or a black hole

The squat toilet on Czech artist David Černý's controversial Entropa sculpture in Brussels was to be dismounted at the request of the Bulgarian foreign ministry. Instead it was covered with a black cloth. The daily Dnevnik writes: "This makes Bulgaria look like a combination between a black sheep and a black hole. The mourning cloth not only covered the toilet but converted it into an installation with an even more ambiguous and, as far as the 'patriots' are concerned, offensive message. ... Bulgaria's vehement reaction ... deserves such an emphasis, for it stands in contrast to its demonstrative passivity and lacking competence in much more important affairs of state. There are reasons for Bulgaria being seen as a black sheep in Europe. Only recently, while Slovakia decided against putting the decommissioned Bohunice [nuclear power plant] back into operation, Bulgaria insisted on restarting reactors 3 and 4 at the Kosloduj plant. The difficulties its judiciary is still having fighting organised crime in its second year of EU membership show that it's also a black hole."

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