Bulgaria portrays itself as police state

The EU Parliament yesterday approved Bulgaria's membership in the Schengen Information System. With the move the country comes one step closer to abolishing controls on the EU's internal borders. The daily Sega writes that in a bid to gloss over its judicial and economic shortcomings Bulgaria has not balked at casting itself as a police state: "Why do Europeans see Bulgaria as fit to join the Schengen Area but not the Eurozone? Because while the government goes about its police work, it fails miserably in economic terms. ... That means the Ministry of the Interior deserves the credit for our admission to the Schengen Area - or more accurately the police, who have rightly considered the fulfilment of the European criteria as their true historic mission. A state that builds its image abroad primarily on police reports is nothing more than a police state. Nevertheless a critical look is enough to see that in fact Bulgaria is a mere parody of a police state. Because when push comes to shove not even the criminals take it seriously."

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