MOSCOW (Sputnik) — As an EU member, Bulgaria was better off economically outside the European Union than after it joined the bloc back in 2007, the leader of Bulgaria's Attack party said Friday at a governmental meeting.
Siderov described Russia's earlier decision to scrap the promised South Stream pipeline project that was to bring billions of cubic meters of Russian natural gas to South Europe, as painful. The pipeline was to run across the Black Sea and make a landfall in Bulgaria, which made Sofia its gateway and one of the main beneficiaries.
"Now Bulgaria is a colony with almost no sovereignty. Bulgaria's ruling elite does everything the US embassy or the commissioner in Brussels wants it to," Siderov said. He accused Washington of pulling its strings on the South Stream project.
Bulgaria is highly dependent on Russian energy supplies, with about 90 percent of its natural gas coming from Russia.
